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Re: Obsolete features



On Friday, 19 May 2006 at 12:10, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to ask for opinions on removing two features I consider 
> obsolete.
> 
> The first is the exact address regeneration. I've been looking at the 
> history of the INSTALL file mentioning that it's broken. That change 
> adding the note was made in December 1999 so it's broken for at least 6 
> 1/2 years now and nobody missed it (and least not that much to make a 
> developer un-break it).

I suppose if it's been broken for that long it might as well go.

> The second is the sun attachment thing which I've never seen in the wild 
> even once. I tried to google on it and it turns out this is some 
> proprietary "standard" I couldn't really figure out what it's about 
> after all...

On the other hand, if this works I don't see a strong reason to get
rid of it. Is it cluttering up the code that badly?

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