[Bro-Dev] #297: Remove trace rewriter

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#297: Remove trace rewriter
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  Reporter:  seth    |      Owner:  robin
      Type:  Task    |     Status:  testing
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:  Bro1.6
 Component:  Bro     |    Version:
Resolution:          |   Keywords:  cleanup
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Comment (by robin):

 >  I don't quite understand the comment about "probably be quite
 >  impractical".  Why is that?

 The problem is that with the scripts changing a lot, a simple patch
 doesn't really work: if it just adds the rewriting-specific parts to
 the new code, that is unlikely to work in any reasonable way due to
 the restructuring of logic and data structures. A patch that gets us
 back to the current functionality would essentially need to revert all
 the scripts changes and go back to their old versions.

 What I could see is:

     (1) we create a patch that re-adds all the old versions of the
     scripts in a separate directory, like "old-for-rewriting".

     (2) our patch does actually not add rewriting to 1.6, but
     *removes* rewriting from 1.5. Rewriting is already not working
     correctly in 1.5, and I think the orginal idea was mainly to have
     reference of the code as it used to be. Having the remove-from-1.5
     patch can play that role too. Anybody who actually wants to use it
     with 1.6 needs to invest quite a bit work anyway.

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