[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#9330) RFC: "bad" clients

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9330 >

If the SDL client doesn't compile for the next release it should be 
removed from automatic detection.  --enable-client=sdl should still work.

The XAW client should definitely be removed from automatic detection. 
First of all automatic detection doesn't work for it, since if detection 
fails so does configure (unlike the gtk2 client, where if detection 
fails configure proceeds to the next available client).  Also my 
research indicates that 95-99% of XAW-client users are using this client 
by mistake (they're on platforms that support gtk/gtk2 but probably just 
don't have the dev libraries installed).  It would be much better to 
have configure fail and tell them to install gtk or gtk2 libraries. 
Again --enable-client=xaw should still work.  This change should be made 
in any case and doesn't necessarily depend on the "next" release (it may 
also be backported to S1_14 if there's a 1.14.2).

jason