Re: Removing obsolete files from SVN

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 10.02.2007 14:45, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > Christian Persch has filed bug 395392 in which he asks whether the following
> > obsolete directories can be removed from SVN:
> >
> > archiver/
> > root-manager/
> > debian/
> > capplets/file-types
> > capplets/localization
> > capplets/mime-type
> > capplets/rollback
> > capplets/url-properties
> > capplets/wm-properties
>
> add idl/ to the list.
>
> Since nobody spoke in favour of keeping them, I propose to drop
> all that obsolete stuff right after we've branched for 2.18. Any
> objections?

I tried to get some of these things to compile but it was tricky. Some 
of these things look like they could be useful (file-types, 
localization). Is it worth looking to see what state they are in, or 
should we probably just start again?

-Thomas