On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:57 -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> >> Is there any reason to nuke 'em?  -sc
> >
> > I was thinking more along the lines of whether there is any reason  
> > to keep them.
> >
> > My thinking in getting rid of them is the repository will have less  
> > clutter (less code) and check out times will be significantly  
> > reduced. Since they are now dead code, having them hang around just  
> > adds to the mental burden of getting up to speed with the library.
> 
> 
> Oh yeah!  @#!$  Subversion.  :(  Hrm.  Tom says he's going to add  
> mercurial support next to rubyforge so I'd hold onto 'em for the time  
> being since that overhead will vanish upon import.  <:~]  -sc

Been away for a bit, so sorry for the time lag, but....

doesn't this aspect of SVN sorta defeat the purpose of a VCS? (not
wanting to start/continue VCS wars, btw).

I agree with Sean.  They should all be kept until migration to a
different/better tool, otherwise you might as well start nuking them
after every release. ;)

ast
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Andrew S. Townley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://atownley.org

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