[Kstars-devel] Re: KDE/kdeedu/kstars/kstars/htmesh

[Akarsh Simha]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:33:58AM +0300, Alexey Khudyakov wrote:
> On 20.02.2011 22:15, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> > Alexey,
> >
> > I'd like to point out that HTMesh was written as if it were going to
> > be an independent library that any application could use.
> >
> > So unused functions like indexToName are probably better off sticking
> > there, so that those pacakges of functionality are still present.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> It was but it is not maintained by original authors which means that we 
> have to maintain it. It is not easy to understand and every removed 
> function make this task easier. It's impossible to break unused function 
> too.
> 
> Also unused code pathes tend to bitrot over time. It shouldn't be 
> prominent in this case but anyway.

Hmm, using git, it seems a lot easier and faster to find and switch to
old commits, so I think I now grok your POV.

Regards
Akarsh