On 04/01/2011 03:10 PM, Robbie Gemmell wrote:
By deleting, it becomes more of a pain for people to inspect the old code (which they may actually be using a version of even if we don't support it) or create patches against it etc should they want to without actually reviving the whole lot back to trunk. Things may never be truly deleted from the repo, but 'deleting' them does make it more of a pain to ever do anything with it again.
The code will still be available on release branches. So e.g. in this case the 0.8 release branch will have the 'last released' code for those components, and should be as easy to read as it would in an attic...
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