On 1 April 2011 16:11, Gordon Sim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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... > > I guess the argument is that by placing all "dead" code in the attic you don;t have to remember precisely the version in which it became dead. Like I said before, I'm pretty relaxed about it (though I have a slight preference for keeping an attic - I see arguments for the attic such as new people coming to the code and wondering why we don't have X - we say "we did, but no-one maintained it, go look in the attic")... but as long as the things are removed from trunk, I'm happy
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