Another idea (don't know how hard it is) is to have test coverage + comment coverage in Hudson.

Then we can start to consider that dead code = code with no test or no comment.

Laurent.


On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
Hi,

There is *a lot* of dead code in the image.

I guess around 1/3 of the code base in Core is just not used at all (especially Morphic).

One thing I would like to do is to put, at the beginning of a development cycle,
a call

�� �� �� ��self doesAnyOneUseThisTaggedIn: 'pharo 1.3'.

at the beginning of *all* unsent methods. And keep it even in the released image.

This way we can, within 2-3 interations, remove *a lot* of dead code.

Methods where people tell us that they need them, we should tag
with <api> or <public> or something like that.


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