From: Jeff Squyres; Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:46 PM >On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Thomas Naughton wrote: > >> Bernard / others, >> >> I also thought that if folks wanted to keep the material around (not >> have >> to dig out of "attic") then we could simply create a subdir under >> "oscarsamples/". We could move these "deprecated" sample files to this >> folder and just mark the folder as ".oscar_ignore". >> >> This will enable the files to be easily viewable from SVN checkouts but >> won't show up in distribution tarballs. >> > >Sorry -- gotta disagree here.
Agree with the disagreement. >What's wrong with getting them out of the attic? > >Version control systems have history for a purpose. You can always go >back to a prior version to get old files that are deleted off the head. > You can also get them from any of the tag/branch trees. > >So I don't think that having another subdir with outdated files on the >head of the trunk is a good idea. Having the files around will cause problems for someone looking at the directory tree, such as trying to fix code that isn't used, or struggling to understand why a fix isn't working as expected. One of the other contributors made such a mistake last Nov/Dec with some old RHL 7.2 ia64 code -- that was long out-of-date. -- David N. Lombard My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
