Roland Mainz wrote: > The Makefile isn't used, it's just there (well, until now it didn't bite > anyone). The problem I see is that if we remove this file we create a > "precedent" for more file stripping in our copy of the AST codebase. > Where should we start - and where should we stop ? How do we keep track > of removed files and updates to them (in theory the *.diff files could > be used to track&&restore removed files but exactly this mechanism > doesn't seem to be welcome in the OS/Net tree... ;-( ) ? We can't really > affort trying to rip out source files "randomly" since this would break > any (semi-)automated update process and doing such stuff manually would > be time-consuming and error-prone.
The perl tree in ON has all the files that aren't used as part of the Solaris build removed. I have a series of scripts that figure out which files are used, which are redundant and which have changed from release to release of perl. It's a bit of a pain to do, but mostly automated. -- Alan Burlison --
