Re: [HACKERS] freefuncs.c is never called from anywhere!?

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > I think it would be a bad idea to go around and yank out NOT_USED code
> > wholesale --- this should be looked at on a case-by-case basis, with
> > consideration of whether the code might be useful again in future.
> > 
> > But I think I might vote for pruning the _deadcode directories
> > wholesale.  I suspect the files in them are suffering from
> > irrecoverable bit rot.
> 
> I disagree on _deadcode.  While the code is rotted, it does implement
> some full functions that have no other history, like verion.c for
> versioning and xfunc for expensive functions.  Yanking them means we can
> never know what they did.

even 'yanked' code is still in the cvs repository ... is it something that
ppl actually refer to, or are just afraid of possibly needing/wanting to
go back and look at it?  maybe just add a '.readme' file to a subdirectory
to note files that were removed or something like that?

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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