Re: Motif support

[Po Lu]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> The hacker must track those conditionals while reading the source.

Which takes very little effort.

> Somehow we must ensure that the existing and future hackers should know
> about this ;-)

If you are right and nobody cares about Motif, then they won't bother to
keep the Motif port building either.

> What I've read from you about motif on this thread convinced me to give
> it a try, but let's face it, the display code is rotten spaghetti (much
> of Emacs' C sources are rotten spaghetti, but the display part is far
> worse) and removing some of the umpteen backends would be a start to
> improve things.

Removing tiny pieces of code, most of which are tucked away in lwlib/,
will not improve the "rotten spaghetti" that is the display code (which
is already a statement I disagree with.)

> If Motif is so good, maybe remove Lucid?

"Lucid" is just the widget library used to interface with (partially)
both Motif and the variants of Athena widgets.

Both the Motif build and the "Lucid" build use the Lucid library.  Even
the GTK build, PGTK port, NS port and W32 port use parts of the Lucid
library for handling menus.  The only GUI port that is completely free
of lwlib is the Haiku port.