Re: Motif support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  rpluim@gmail.com,  larsi@gnus.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:46:37 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> >> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  rpluim@gmail.com,  larsi@gnus.org,
> >>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:56:35 +0100
> >> 
> >> No, I maybe sound annoying, it wasn't my goal, but my opinion is that code 
> >> has
> >> lots of paths which makes it quite hard to read and understand, so I 
> >> generally
> >> welcome anything that can make it less complex.
> >
> > We don't develop Emacs to make its code easy to understand, we develop
> > Emacs to make it useful on platforms and in configurations we want to
> > support.  How easy will the code be is secondary.
> 
> Yes of course, I didn't meant it is priority to be easy to understand. But if
> some old cruft that no one, or really very few people, use was removed, it 
> would
> implicitly also make the code base slightly less complicated to understand and
> maintain. Would that be a bad thing?

But we decided that we do want to support Motif for now.