HEADS-UP: new feature: removing of obsolete files

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sun Jul 24 02:25:39 GMT 2005


At 1:00 PM -0600 7/23/05, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>In message: <20050723165510.0ba168d0 at Magellan.Leidinger.net>
>             Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at 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!

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


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