diff --git a/devtools/svn-tarballs.pl b/devtools/svn-tarballs.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index ccac9a384b..0000000000
--- a/devtools/svn-tarballs.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-use strict;
-use FindBin qw($Bin);
-
-my %branch = (
-              '1.2.x' => "http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk/server",
-              '1.1.x' => "http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/branches/memcached-1.1.x",
-              );
-
-foreach my $b (keys %branch) {
-    chdir $Bin or die;
-    my $url = $branch{$b};
-    my $out = `svn info $b`;
-    unless ($out =~ /^URL: (.+)/m && $1 eq $url) {
-        system("rm -rf $b");
-        system("svn", "co", $url, $b)
-            and die "Failed to checkout $url\n";
-    } else {
-        chdir "$Bin/$b" or die;
-        system("svn up") and die "Failed to svn up";
-    }
-
-    chdir "$Bin/$b" or die;
-    $out = `svn info .`;
-
-    my ($maxrev) = $out =~ /^Last Changed Rev: (\d+)/m
-        or die "No max rev?";
-
-    print "$b = $maxrev\n";
-    my $distfile = "memcached-$b-svn$maxrev.tar.gz";
-    next if -f $distfile && -s _;
-
-    open(my $fh, "configure.ac") or die "no configure.ac in $b?";
-    my $ac = do { local $/; <$fh>; };
-    close($fh);
-    $ac =~ s!AC_INIT\(memcached,.+?\)!AC_INIT(memcached, $b-svn$maxrev, brad\@danga.com)!
-        or die "Failed to replace";
-    open (my $fh, ">configure.ac") or die "failed to write configure.ac writeable: $!";
-    print $fh $ac;
-    close ($fh);
-
-    system("./autogen.sh") and die "Autogen failed.  Missing autotools?";
-    system("./configure") and die "configure failed";
-    system("make dist") and die "make dist failed";
-    die "Failed to make dist $distfile." unless -s $distfile;
-}
-
-