Hi Tony, On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 12:11 PM Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > I have Xquartz (https://www.xquartz.org/) and Xcode installed in my system. With this setup, I tried building Vim with Athena support. The build fails in the balloon eval code. Note that I am able to successfully build MacVim with native Mac GUI support on this system. Regards, Yegappan > > > >> > >> 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. > > > > -- -- 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/CAAW7x7k1mT5b_DqNAvDN_NNcbYoQF-7ncuJu4pgUSmf47WEPNA%40mail.gmail.com.
