James McCoy wrote:
> > > > > Patch 8.2.4527 > > > > > Problem: The Athena GUI is old and does not work well. > > > > > Solution: Remove the Athena GUI from configure to find out who > > > > > still wants > > > > > support for this GUI. > > > > > Files: src/configure.ac, src/auto/configure, src/Makefile > > > > > > > > Perhaps the NeXtaw GUI should also be removed. It's basically the same > > > > as Athena with some nicer looking widgets. Opinions? > > > > > > FWIW, here's some data about "old" GUI support on the Debian side. > > > > > > We started providing a lesstif-based package around 2003. In 2011, we > > > switched to using Athena for the non-GTK/Gnome based GUI (for reasons I > > > don't recall). > > > > I wonder why the lesstif library is still used. Perhaps because nobody > > bothered to switch it to the now LGPM Motif libraries? > > We dropped the lesstif package before Motif was released as LGPL. Ah, so "switch to using Athena" means you actually stopped providing the build with lesstif. Probably because lesstif (at the time) had some bugs. > > > Based on Debian's "Popularity Contest"[0] stats, vim-athena has around > > > twice[1] the amount of active users that vim-lesstif ever did. However, > > > that's still quite the minority (147 / 42,086 [2]) of people that have > > > some Vim version installed, as correlated by having vim-common > > > installed. > > > > > > For GUI users[3], it's 147 Athena to 3128 GTK, so still pretty small but > > > not quite as bad. > > > > > > I guess it's time to either transition those folks back to a Motif GUI > > > or drop the non-GTK GUI from Debian. > > > > Is there a good reason to not want the Motif version, or does this just > > require some encouragement for someone to setup the packages? > > Since people do seem to still be using the non-GTK package, I likely > will add a Motif version and transition the Athena users to it. Good. Do I need to roll back the change to configure? > > You do not mention it explicitly, but there is no package with the > > NeXtaw library? > > Correct. As far as I know, Debian doesn't have neXtaw packaged. OK. It might have another name, but that means using a different configuration anyway. -- Marriage isn't a word. It's a sentence. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20220312184048.EFD321C79E4%40moolenaar.net.
