[Exist-development] spring cleaning before release of 2.0?

[Jens Ø. P. <oe...@gm...>]

Hi,

I wonder if it would not be a good idea to do some basic housekeeping before releasing 2.0?

Some things appear to me to have been moved from trunk five weeks ago that might better have been deleted or moved to the attic.

Browsing through trunk, there is a lot of stuff that has not been touched for several years - some of it for as long as five years! This might mean that it is a gem of coding that never needs revision, but it may also mean that it is cruft, and there is no reason why people poking around in the code should stop and wonder what the meaning of such things is.

I am sure that there are things I do not understand the function of, and that is my fault, but I list here a few things that struck me as being in need of examination:

backrest
bin/ batch.d
deprecated
build/cruisecontrol
roadmap
webapp/administration
developper.html

I notice that deprecated, build/cruisecontrol, and developper.html were not ported to 2.0, but they should perhaps be removed from trunk as well? Is there a list of what was not ported? In stable, there is no way of telling how old things are.

What made me look into this was webapp/administration - it sounded awfully important, and was even partly functional, but it was hard for me to see what to use it for.

I think there is also the question how long to keep the Sandbox open, when eXide gives so much more (but no sample queries, I know). First time users will wonder why they are given two apps that (sort of) do the same thing.

Cheers,

Jens