On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05:04 pm, [email protected] wrote: > >One tiny reason: People tend to forget that they can pull things from > >SVN > >history, when an isolated file disappears. I'm expecting someday > >someone's > >going to want to add bsddb - when they do, dbm.py might be a decent > >starting > >point (but it likely has memory leaks that were corrected in gdbm.py). > > Anyone who cannot figure out how to use svn has a negligible chance of > successfully implementing the bsddb module. >
It's not really a matter of not knowing how to use SVN. Peg revisions are easy enough - even people who don't know them yet, will probably learn them easily. But if no one points out that there was once something vaguely related to what they want to do in the present,... Well, I think few would know to look for it under the name of "dbm.py", even if it occurred to them to look backward in time before getting started. That is, unless they saw this thread in the archives :) But I'm starting to get the feeling that the consensus is that it should be deleted. That's not a problem.
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