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Date:      Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:25:33 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, Alexander@Leidinger.net
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: new feature: removing of obsolete files
Message-ID:  <p06230972bf08abd691a5@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20050723.130021.96602120.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <200507231423.j6NENULF017447@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050723165510.0ba168d0@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050723.130021.96602120.imp@bsdimp.com>

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At 1:00 PM -0600 7/23/05, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>In message: <20050723165510.0ba168d0@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
>             Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> writes:
>: I covered nearly 6 years of obsolete files in this commit, but I may
>: have missed some. I also tried to add a short comment why a files was
>: removed. So in case you find a wrong comment or a file which isn't
>: covered by this commit feel free to send a patch or commit it on our
>: own.
>
>Bravo!  I have lists of FreeBSD trees going back to 1.0, but
>haven't had time to write the script to find those files no
>longer in current.

I started a project like this with releases 4.0 through 4.8 plus
5.0, but got discouraged when I realized the list of files would
change depending on what options someone used (NO_FOO options,
for instance).  I'm glad to see someone had more persistence at
working on it than I did!

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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