Re: Removing obsolete files from SVN

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 22.03.2007 20:15, Thomas Wood wrote:
> 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?

No idea, but they can always be easily recovered from svn if someone
really wants to start working on them.

Jens