[Seaside] unused methods

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sun Apr 19 19:26:21 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at angband.za.org> writes:

Frank> How difficult would it be to move these unused methods to a new package -
Frank> Seaside-Cruft say - instead of outright deleting them?

Frank> Perhaps then people who wanted those removed methods would have an easy way to
Frank> "regain" the methods, by simply moving methods from Seaside-Cruft to their own
Frank> package.

It's a maintenance issue.  Suppose a method gets "copied", but then
reintrodced mainline, perhaps even with a bug fix.  Ouch.  Fragile code,
at your service.

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