On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> My position is simple: the code is broken and unused.  As a general
> rule, we shouldn't keep broken, unused code in the tree for extended
> periods of time.  Therefore, we should remove it.

I agree with Adam. We should aggressively cull dead code from the tree. It's 
the only way to keep things tidy. "I may get back to it at some point in the 
future" is a fine statement, but without any firm commitment, it seems best to 
just remove the code from the tree for now. If and when someone steps up to 
actually work on it again, it shouldn't be much work to bring the code back to 
life. Forcing everyone else to deal with code that may or may not ever be 
returned to in the meantime isn't really fair to the rest of the project.

dave
(hy...@apple.com)

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