Hi, On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 11:21 AM Kuriyama Kazunobu < [email protected]> wrote:
> My understanding is that macOS is a certified Unix and that every Unix > user expects that X Windowing System runs there. For that, there's XQuartz > there for years, not just because it's been easy for someone having some > interest to have it. So, if it's really a Unix, it's quite natural for > people to expect that it's at least technically possible to implement a GUI > version of a given TUI using Athena or any other X11 GUIs such as Motif, > GTK, and Qt. Currently and fortunately, Vim fully fulfills the > expectation, and hence I don't think there's any good reason to disable any > of the GUIs as long as there's no or little cost to maintain them. > > Are they any instructions for building a GUI Vim with X11 or Motif or GTK or Qt on MacOS? If there is, we should update the INSTALLmac.txt file with those instructions. > On the other hand, as someone has already pointed out, Carbon has long > been deprecated and is now discontinued, the cost to maintain the Carbon > GUI seems not to be affordable unless there's someone who has a working Mac > machine running more than a decade. > > I think we can safely remove the support for building Vim with Carbon on MacOS. This currently doesn't work and is not tested. Regards, Yegappan -- -- 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/CAAW7x7nrO2GiXxCXvNKrE%3DKVN%3DPp19abnun6Qia%3DZZubp2wHew%40mail.gmail.com.
