Re: Can we go GTK-only?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 19:15:02 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>,
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 13:32:14 -0700 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Alternatively, how about if we change the GTK port to be more like
> > the NS port? That is, we leave xterm.o, xfns.c, xselect.c etc.
> > alone (except for removing the GTK-related parts), and have new
> > source files gtkterm.c, gtkfns.c, gtkselect.c etc. as needed to
> > support GTK. The GTK port would no longer define HAVE_X_WINDOWS.
> > That way, the no-toolkit, Motif, and Athena configurations would
> > still work, without getting in the way of GTK.
> 
> This seems like a good idea. Emacs already has multiple front ends.
> Having a distinct GTK front end seems like a good, clean sort of
> segregation. The legacy code can be left in and alone for now for the
> benefit of those who use it.

It's not as trivial as it sounds, because our experience shows that
such a separation causes duplication of code.  Minimizing code
duplication makes the job harder.