Were obsolete wiki pages really obsolete?

[SimonSapin]

@cmr, you recently removed a bunch of wiki pages as "obsolete". Were they really all obsolete? In particular, I remember finding useful information on Note-build-system. Does another page replace it now?

(I didn’t find a web UI for the wiki’s history, but this part of git log --stat on a clone of the backing repository.)

commit d91b9956d8dde1a883c2dcc5dba168efb82ae3ef
Author: Corey Richardson <corey@octayn.net>
Date:   Thu Jun 19 09:37:16 2014 -0700

    Remove old, obsolete pages

 Bikeshed-Numeric-Traits.md                     | 468 --------------------
 Bikeshed-alt-check.md                          |  56 ---
 Bikeshed-common-database-API.md                |  39 --
 Bikeshed-composability.md                      |  21 -
 Bikeshed-constrained-types.md                  |  75 ----
 Bikeshed-crate-metadata.md                     |  19 -
 Bikeshed-crate-packaging-system.md             |  55 ---
 Bikeshed-disjoint-union-types.md               |  76 ----
 Bikeshed-extracted-documentation.md            |  18 -
 Bikeshed-function-subtyping-wrt-regions.md     | 101 -----
 Bikeshed-function-types.md                     |  70 ---
 Bikeshed-impl-method-extraction.md             |  38 --
 Bikeshed-mapreduce.md                          |  29 --
 Bikeshed-note.md                               |  49 ---
 Bikeshed-object-types.md                       |  59 ---
 Bikeshed-pattern-matching-syntax.md            | 166 -------
 Bikeshed-rustdoc.md                            |  31 --
 Bikeshed-rustpkg.md                            | 124 ------
 Bikeshed-syntax-extension.md                   |  67 ---
 Bikeshed-task-reuse.md                         |  31 --
 Bikeshed-typestate.md                          |  25 --
 Bikesheds.md                                   |  31 --
 Doc-attributes.md                              | 154 -------
 Doc-crate-hashes.md                            |  29 --
 Doc-packaging-terminology.md                   |  19 -
 Doc-unit-testing.md                            | 166 -------
 Doc-using-rustdoc.md                           | 189 --------
 Note-build-system.md                           |  26 --
 Note-ccache.md                                 |  27 --
 Note-contribution-ideas.md                     |  58 ---
 Note-defined-attributes.md                     |  83 ----
 Note-development-roadmap.md                    |  58 ---
 Note-metadata-format.md                        |  21 -
 Note-packaging.md                              |  29 --
 Proposal-RFC-process.md                        |  17 -
 Proposal-float-removal.md                      |   7 -
 Proposal-for-Lightweight-RFC-Process.md        |  26 --
 Proposal-for-all-or-nothing-mut.md             |  90 ----
 Proposal-for-attribute-preprocessing.md        |  70 ---
 Proposal-for-bindless-bind.md                  | 102 -----
 Proposal-for-channel-contracts.md              | 233 ----------
 Proposal-for-character-encoding-API.md         | 193 ---------
 Proposal-for-closure-reform-(specific).md      |  34 --
 Proposal-for-closure-reform.md                 | 182 --------
 Proposal-for-const-kind.md                     |  37 --
 Proposal-for-constructor-expr.md               | 119 -----
 Proposal-for-crate-format.md                   | 106 -----
 Proposal-for-effects.md                        | 173 --------
 Proposal-for-fixed-length-arrays.md            |  88 ----
 Proposal-for-function-objects.md               | 200 ---------
 Proposal-for-interfaces.md                     | 158 -------
 Proposal-for-linked-task-failure.md            | 143 ------
 Proposal-for-logging.md                        |  25 --
 Proposal-for-mutable-slots.md                  |  73 ----
 Proposal-for-predicate-language.md             | 185 --------
 Proposal-for-regions.md                        | 576 -------------------------
 Proposal-for-unifying-traits-and-interfaces.md | 351 ---------------
 Proposal-for-unique-types.md                   | 110 -----
 Proposal-to-address-Dan's-bug.md               | 197 ---------
 Proposals.md                                   |  33 --
 60 files changed, 6035 deletions(-)

[emberian]

No, that information is replaced by running make tips, and is viewable at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/Makefile.in#L11

[emberian]

If you found that there was useful information that I removed, though, please bring it up! Everything I removed was either hopelessly old or replaced by something on http://doc.rust-lang.org/index.html. I prefer docs to live on rust-lang.org rather than the wiki, if at all possible, and use the wiki rather as a staging ground / truly wikified stuff.

[SimonSapin]

Agreed on doc.rust-lang.org over wiki. I’ll look in details if something is missing.