Re: wow, all that stuff in CVS

["William F. Maton" <wmaton ryouko dgim crc ca>]

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 nelson-gnome@crynwr.com wrote:

> Wow, there's an awful lot of stuff in gnome CVS, as exposed by Bonsai.
> Anybody have any idea what it all does?  Mightn't it be a good thing
> for each package in CVS to have a file "BLURB" which describes the
> problem that the software solves?  And a way to search through all of
> those BLURBs?
> 
> I'd go ahead and do it myself, but I'd be stepping on an awful lot of
> developers toes.  D'ya think anyone would raise a big hue and cry?
> "Who's Russ Nelson and why is he committing changes to my project??"

I've been tempted several times to do this myself for my own sanity,
because I've been caught twice now by "dead modules" or obsoleted modules.
For example, gdm is now gdm2.  gnomeicu was once named something else, and
that is still in CVS.  Obviously, it needs a good 'limpia' (cleaning).

wfms