[oe] [RFC} glib-2.0 cleanup

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:11:54PM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
> <mickey at vanille-media.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 28.02.2010, 20:39 +0100 schrieb Frans Meulenbroeks:
> >> We have 26 glib-2.0 recipes (and 8 native ones). (see ls below)
> >> Only a few versions are used (see also the grep below)
> >>
> >> for glib-2.0:
> >> "2.12.12"
> >> "2.16.4"
> >> "2.18.3"
> >> "2.20.3"
> >> "2.22.1"
> >> "2.22.4"
> >> "2.6.4"
> >> "2.8.6"
> >>
> >> for glib-2.0-native:
> >> "2.16.1"
> >> "2.18.0"
> >> "2.22.1"
> >> "2.22.4"
> >>
> >> Both include the last two versions
> >> Proposal is to remove all versions that are not used.
> >>
> >> How do people feel about this?
> >
> > Sounds good to me, althoug I'd recommend not removing them but just
> > moving them out of sight, i.e. in an 'old' folder. That way we could
> > please both the lets-keep-everything-no-matter-how-rotten and also the
> > lets-strive-for-few-high-quality recipes.
> >
> 
> FWIW I like the idea of having 'obsolete' recipes so moving them to
> recipes/obsolete may not be so bad.

+1 on this one, since we already have recipes/obsolete in BBMASK by default 
and it will reduce parse time for obsoleted recipes. And git-mv does a nice 
enough job of preserving commit history...

-- 
Denys