On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Guillermo Polito wrote:

> 
> Should we remove invalid and unused versions?  

Good question. 

I think the first rule of thumb is to never remove a version from a 
configuration. Once you have published a configuration you don't know if 
someone else has referenced a published version in their configuration and if 
you remove the version you will break their configuration. 

Removing a configuration version is the moral equivalent of deleting an mcz 
file from a repository...it only hurts the other folks that depend upon the 
file.

Sooo, it follows that a) if you don't think any is using the version and b) you 
don't mind if you break someone else's configuration then you can go ahead and 
remove the version...in the case of an emergency, the removed version can be 
restored from and older version of the configuration mcz file ...

Dale

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