Re: Leftover dmake makefiles

On 01/03/13 10:05, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On 2013-03-01 10:39, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > On 03/01/2013 12:35 AM, Peter Foley wrote:
> > > We still have 153 dmake files left over in test, qa, and workben 
> > > directories.
> > >
> > > Somebody should go through them and decide which of the various
> > > examples, tests, etc. are worth keeping.
> >
> > There's a few places, like desktop/test/deployment/{active,passive}/, 
> > that I use every once in a while, but typically only adjust to any 
> > changes that accumulated in the meantime whenever I actually want to 
> > use it again.
> >
> > Therefore, if it doesn't hurt too much, I'd prefer to not clean up too 
> > aggressively there.  (Sure, you can always resurrect removed stuff 
> > from the repo, but, frankly, that can be a pain, esp. if you can't 
> > remember /exactly/ what you are actually looking for and thus need to 
> > grep around.  Then again, other rotten places are so untouched for the 
> > last decade that just removing them won't upset anybody.)
>
>
> Maybe we can just cleanup any dmake files that haven't been touched for 
> X years, where X is whatever number you are comfortable with?

it doesn't make any sense to just remove dmake files in some directory
and leave the code around.  maybe it needs special flags to build or
whatever.  either remove the whole thing or leave the dmake file there
as "documentation".