5 Feb
2004
5 Feb
'04
3:24 a.m.
On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 03:44, Bob Jamison wrote:
Jonathan Phillips wrote:
Actually, I'll just stick to cleaning up the code and not removing #if 0 's
Jon
How about translating the #if 0's to #ifdef HAVE_SOME_PROPERTY_OR_FUNCTION
That might help the code archaeologists fix it later.
Much of that code is already bitrotted enough that it either doesn't build or introduces bugs if re-enabled at this point. The passage of time will only serve to make things worse...
If things have gone unused for a while, it's better to nuke them, IMO. If we need them again for reference, CVS serves as a convenient historical record (and for very rotted code you will need to go back in CVS for context to determine what the code used to do anyway).
-mental