Re: Motif support

[Arthur Miller]

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?