On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:27 PM Yegappan Lakshmanan <[email protected]> wrote: >fourchette (hippologie) > 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.
Are they any different from the instructions (including having X11, including "development" packages, installed at compile-time and an X11 server running at run-time) for building them on other Unix-like operating systems? > >> >> 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 Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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/CAJkCKXt84wCq7NjG_54%2BeKOfm-kpB%3DFFfhLQF_OVetJAu5jK2g%40mail.gmail.com.
