Mikhail, Thanks for the pointers.

I dug back in the mail archives.  Geir wrote:

> I think of it still as "live material" in our tree, but I don't
> feel too strongly about this.  If we keep it there, we should set  a
> policy to expire it out of there at some point.

I'd suggest that the two files that you mention which are "never used"
probably don't qualify as "live material". ;-)

So, now my question is when is it going to be expired?  i'd suggest
that anything moved to archive should have an expiry date set in a
file or svn property when it is moved so it is clear when it will be
removed.

Personally, I still think having paths archive/modules and
modules/archive is confusing.  99% of our users will never use the
extra >1.5M overhead of "svn checkout" that 'archive' creates.  The 1%
who might want it can easily find it in svn.

Regards,
 Mark.


On 4/10/06, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a precedent of archiving a duplicating functionality - IBM
> security module
> was moved to archive/modules/security
>
> It was discussed in threads
>     [classlib] security2 -> security
> and
>     [classlib] security moved
>
> Thanks,
> Mikhail
>
> 2006/4/10, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > What is the archive tree for?  Why not just remove them and let svn
> > take care of "archiving" them?  (This also means users don't have to
> > check out unnecessary files.)
> >
> > -Mark.
> >
> > On 4/10/06, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > luni ASN1 De/Encoder is never used.
> > >
> > > luni Base64 decoder is faster vs. corresponding security class, but it has
> > > a bug for which I do not see a quick fix: it does not support /n and
> > > /r characters
> > > in encoded form. Adding of that support would slow down luni 
> > > implementation.
> > >
> > > luni DefaultPolicy is currently never used.
> > >
> > > So I suggest moving luni classes to archive/modules.
> > >
> > > Comments?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mikhail
> > >
> > >
> > > 2006/4/6, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > We have pairs of implementations for the following functionality
> > > > (modules luni and security):
> > > >
> > > > ASN1 De/Encoding
> > > > Base64 De/Encoding
> > > > DefaultPolicy
> > > >
> > > > I'm going to compare and choose one them but I'd appreciate if someone
> > > > else would compare them too.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mikhail
> > > >
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