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?

[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.

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