[PATCH modular] Delete scripts written in 2005 to generate modular configuration

Owain Ainsworth zerooa at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 20 08:45:26 PDT 2010


On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 03:15:49PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > These scripts generated configure.ac and other Autoconf files
> > for apps, libs and drivers.
> 
> Obviously, the usefulness of these scripts isn't what it was at the
> time of the modularization, but I don't see the benefit in removing
> them. The modular repo is for collecting bits on modularizing Xorg. I
> don't see anywhere else these scripts would go.

That is what version control is for. Keeping around stuff that won't
work anymore and won't be used again isn't really worth it, if people
want the script they can get it from the history.

-0- - who has no problem with the intent of these patches.
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