Re: CVS Spring Cleaning Ancient versions libs in GNUstep CVS

[Adam Fedor]

On Jun 5, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Alex Perez wrote:
> (A) core/dgs/[jpeg|png|tiff|zlib] - unused and all from 1996-nearly 6MB
Fine.

> (B) core/dgs/dgs/gs - ancient GhostScript code -- 10MB as far as I can 
> tell, this is just GS code and contains no DPS code at all....
Well, DPS is mostly just GS code.

> (C) *POSSIBLY* dgs/fonts, which contains a bunch of old .pfb, .pfm, 
> and .afm PostScript fonts -- 2.5MB worth
>
> In total, this would remove 18.5MB of old antiquated stuff which 
> nobody is using. Does anyone have any objections to this at all? I 
> realize this stuff is not in core, but surely it doesn't need to be 
> kept around forever.

Basically, all of dgs is obsolete.

But, FYI, you could just move all these files to the Attic, you can't 
really delete them - only the gnu.org admin can do that and they're 
averse to removing CVS stuff directly from the repositories - that's 
what CVS is for anyway.