lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

[Pavel Janík]

Hi,

make-dist contains:

echo "Making links to \`lwlib'"
(cd lwlib
 ln *.c *.h *.in ../${tempdir}/lwlib
 ln README Imakefile ChangeLog ../${tempdir}/lwlib
 cd ../${tempdir}/lwlib
 rm -f lwlib-Xol*)

so files lwlib/lwlib-Xol* never end up in dist file. Is there any reason
to have them in CVS when they are not distributed? This change

1996-01-23  Karl Heuer  <kwzh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

	* make-dist (lwlib): Don't distribute lwlib-Xol* files.

was done in 1996, so those files are not used by users for about 6 years.
-- 
Pavel Janík

Perl is a strange, strange language.  At the 32nd try, I got my
modifications to work.
                  -- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen in gnus.ding

Re: lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

[Richard Stallman]

    so files lwlib/lwlib-Xol* never end up in dist file. Is there any reason
    to have them in CVS when they are not distributed? 

I see no point in throwing the code away.

Re: lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
   Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:47:13 -0600 (MDT)

   >     so files lwlib/lwlib-Xol* never end up in dist file. Is there any reason
   >     to have them in CVS when they are not distributed? 
   > 
   > I see no point in throwing the code away.

I do not want to throw them away. I you want to `cvs remove' those
files. There are many files in lwlib which are not used at all and it is
quite hard for newcomers to know which file is used.
-- 
Pavel Janík

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
                  -- Peter Surda in linux@linux.cz

Re: lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     so files lwlib/lwlib-Xol* never end up in dist file. Is there any reason
>     to have them in CVS when they are not distributed? 
> 
> I see no point in throwing the code away.

Doing cvs remove on a file does not throw any code away (it's still in
the repository); it's just not checked out with the head - thus no
longer giving the impression that the code is still used.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

Re: lwlib-Xol* files and make-dist?

[Richard Stallman]

    I do not want to throw them away. I you want to `cvs remove' those
    files. There are many files in lwlib which are not used at all and it is
    quite hard for newcomers to know which file is used.

Ok.