From: Norman V. <nh...@ca...> - 2001-09-28 13:40:11
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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 |