[Python-Dev] Removing files from the repository (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Nov 29 18🔞32 EST 2017


Hm. For the file used for lookup, I see the point of keeping it. But in general, I don't see the point of keeping files we no longer need -- that's what VCS systems are for!

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

29.11.17 21:00, Guido van Rossum пише:

That sounds a bit excessive. Is there a recent incident that inspired this proposal?

The concrete inspiration is issue32159 [1]. I am still not sure that removing these scripts is needed. But there were other cases in which I was not sure about the rationale of removing files. https://bugs.python.org/issue32159


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