Leftover dmake makefiles

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 03/01/2013 10:05 AM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> On 2013-03-01 10:39, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> On 03/01/2013 12:35 AM, Peter Foley wrote:
>>> We still have 153 dmake files left over in test, qa, and workben
>>> directories.
>>>
>>> Somebody should go through them and decide which of the various
>>> examples, tests, etc. are worth keeping.
>>
>> There's a few places, like desktop/test/deployment/{active,passive}/,
>> that I use every once in a while, but typically only adjust to any
>> changes that accumulated in the meantime whenever I actually want to
>> use it again.
>>
>> Therefore, if it doesn't hurt too much, I'd prefer to not clean up too
>> aggressively there.  (Sure, you can always resurrect removed stuff
>> from the repo, but, frankly, that can be a pain, esp. if you can't
>> remember /exactly/ what you are actually looking for and thus need to
>> grep around.  Then again, other rotten places are so untouched for the
>> last decade that just removing them won't upset anybody.)
>
>
> Maybe we can just cleanup any dmake files that haven't been touched for
> X years, where X is whatever number you are comfortable with?

Yeah, that's what I meant with "not too aggressively"---if there's still 
some signs of life in a place, it might make sense to leave it alone for 
now.

Stephan