[Python-Dev] Removing files from the repository

[Guido van Rossum]

Hm. For the file used for lookup, I see the point of keeping it. But in
general, I don't see the point of keeping files we no longer need -- that's
what VCS systems are for!

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 29.11.17 21:00, Guido van Rossum пише:
>
>> That sounds a bit excessive. Is there a recent incident that inspired
>> this proposal?
>>
>
> The concrete inspiration is issue32159 [1]. I am still not sure that
> removing these scripts is needed. But there were other cases in which I was
> not sure about the rationale of removing files.
>
> https://bugs.python.org/issue32159
>
>
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