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Rationale sought: XEmacs 21.5.16 (test) build disabling MS windows toolkit


Hi,

I had a play with the XEmacs 21.5.16-1 build (which is the [test]
version atm). I noticed that, unlike the 21.4.17-1 and 21.4.15-1 build,
XEmacs could not be started using the native MS windows toolkit.

A quick look at the source package confirmed that support was explicitly
disabled:
/usr/src/xemacs-21.5.16-1.sh:130:    --with_msw=no
                \

Seeing as this is different from the 21.4 builds, any clues as to the
rationale behind this?

The prominent thing that comes to mind is that, other than tty, it would
seem plausible to choose one windowing toolkit, that being X, and stick
with it to avoid dependencies (for example, you could still build with
GTK support as well if you could handle having the extra dependency).

However, I would have thought that as there is no extra dependency (the
MS windows toolkit is always going to be there), that there would be no
need to disable it.

I hope that if the rationale isn't compelling, that when this build gets
promoted to [curr] that it does bring in the MS windows support, as it
is handy.

TIA,
Shaddy

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