RE: [Flightgear-devel] NEWS!

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

David Megginson writes:
>
>Jon S. Berndt writes:
>
> > IMHO they do decrease readability and I like to code so as to
> > preclude the need to keep old code. CVS helps with that.
>
>This puts Jon right on the cutting edge -- the Extreme Programming
>people also insist on throwing out old code rather than keeping it
>around, commented or defined out.  Personally, I delete old
>commented-out code in FlightGear whenever Curt lets me get away with
>it.

I also usually delete old commented out code 
IF AND ONLY IF there is a copy of the old code kept
or if the code is under CVS or similar system.

Of course everybody uses something like CVS for all of their
projects these days right  ?  :-)))

FWIW
I have even started keeping things like autoexec.bat and .bashrc
in CVS and this has greatly simplified my administration headaches
as I am often 'testing' stuff that requires a custom setup and this makes
it very easy to go back to a system that I have 'used' before.

Hint for Windows users
If you commit $WIN_DIR \ *.ini to CVS you and routinely update them
you can track changes made to them quite easily :-))

Cheers

Norman