12-24-2010, 12:25 PM
Before we do another release, and move the source code to github, we should clean up any unused stuff. Moving time is always a great time to throw out old unwanted junk.
Here's a list of things that haven't been touched in the source tree for a long time, and probably aren't used or aren't necessary any longer:
Please post how you feel about these changes. If you feel something in the list needs to stay where it is, please include a simple explanation why.
Here's a list of things that haven't been touched in the source tree for a long time, and probably aren't used or aren't necessary any longer:
- binaries/ - 19 months old - only contains a very old linux 32-bit binary
- docs/ - 2 years old - this is sort of a separate topic, but this should probably just be replaced with a README.txt file that tells users to visit the wiki for now, until we get some way to generate full (current!) docs from the wiki, or something like that.
- po/ - 2 years old - we are using a new type of internationalization now, this is no longer needed, the SCons build support has been removed.
- VDrift.kdevelop* - 19+ months - Joe has stated he no longer uses KDevelop, so these are no longer being maintained.
- gpl.txt - change to LICENSE.txt?
- Doxyfile - should go in tools/?
- grind - should go in tools/?
- tools/anjuta/ - 2 years old - same as kdevelop stuff
- tools/autopackage/ - 2 years old - not going to use this anymore, Autopackage is defunct
- tools/cars/ - 2 years old - this contains an empty .car file which is really old and probably wrong. it would be better to have in the VDrift-art tools/ dir, or better yet, to write a generator script that uses a file like this as a template to create a blank car with some values filled in.
- tools/debian/ - 2 years old - this is old, however could be updated with some information someone posted here: http://wiki.vdrift.net/Talk:Compiling#Bu...B_packages
Please post how you feel about these changes. If you feel something in the list needs to stay where it is, please include a simple explanation why.