[asdf-devel] New ASDF maintainer sought

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, <dherring at tentpost.com> wrote:

> Juanjo wrote:
> > * In splitting and reorganizing the code several modules have been found
> > that are actually _not_ used. Windows shortcuts for instance.
>
> I worked hard to get those in there (they had been written and unused
> years before I found them).  They worked shortly before the ASDF2
> redesign, and I had hoped they survived it intact.  IMO, this is a
> critical feature that should not be removed.
>

I am not advocating it to be removed. I just pointed out that in going
through the code, cleaning it up and reorganizing it, unused features came
to the surface. I was actually surprised to see that this code, which is
Windows dependent, was compiled and included for _all_ platforms, but the
associated functions were not used _anywhere_.

Juanjo

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