diff --git a/lib/ini.js b/lib/ini.js
deleted file mode 100644
index b942082cba..0000000000
--- a/lib/ini.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-var sys = require('sys');
-
-sys.error('The "ini" module will be removed in future versions of Node, please extract it into your own code.');
-
-// TODO:
-// 1. Handle quoted strings, including line breaks, so that this:
-//    foo = "bar
-//      baz"
-//    parses to {foo:"bar\n  baz"}
-// 2. Escape with \, so that this:
-//    foo = bar\
-//      \"baz
-//    parses to {foo:"bar\n  \"baz"}
-
-exports.parse = function(d) {
-  var ini = {'-':{}};
-
-  var section = '-';
-
-  var lines = d.split('\n');
-  for (var i=0; i<lines.length; i++) {
-    var line = lines[i].trim(),
-      rem = line.indexOf(";");
-
-    if (rem !== -1) line = line.substr(0, rem);
-
-    var re = /^\[([^\]]*)\]$|^([^=]+)(=(.*))?$/i;
-
-    var match = line.match(re);
-    if (match != null) {
-      if (match[1] != undefined) {
-        section = match[1].trim();
-        ini[section] = {};
-      } else {
-        var key = match[2].trim(),
-          value = (match[3]) ? (match[4] || "").trim() : true;
-        ini[section][key] = value;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  return ini;
-};
-
-function safe (val) {
-  return (val+"").replace(/[\n\r]+/g, " ");
-}
-
-// ForEaches over an object. The only thing faster is to inline this function.
-function objectEach(obj, fn, thisObj) {
-  var keys, key, i, length;
-  keys = Object.keys(obj);
-  length = keys.length;
-  for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-    key = keys[i];
-    fn.call(thisObj, obj[key], key, obj);
-  }
-}
-
-exports.stringify = function (obj) {
-  // if the obj has a "-" section, then do that first.
-  var ini = [];
-  if ("-" in obj) {
-    objectEach(obj["-"], function (value, key) {
-      ini[ini.length] = safe(key) + " = " + safe(value) + "\n";
-    });
-  }
-  objectEach(obj, function (section, name) {
-    if (name === "-") return;
-    ini[ini.length] = "[" + safe(name) + "]\n";
-    objectEach(section, function (value, key) {
-      ini[ini.length] = safe(key) + ((value === true)
-        ? "\n"
-        : " = "+safe(value)+"\n");
-    });
-  });
-  return ini.join("");
-};
-
-exports.encode = exports.stringify;
-exports.decode = exports.parse;
diff --git a/src/node.cc b/src/node.cc
index db2b55aace..3fc90cfccf 100644
--- a/src/node.cc
+++ b/src/node.cc
@@ -1653,7 +1653,6 @@ static Handle<Value> Binding(const Arguments& args) {
       exports->Set(String::New("fs"),           String::New(native_fs));
       exports->Set(String::New("http"),         String::New(native_http));
       exports->Set(String::New("crypto"),       String::New(native_crypto));
-      exports->Set(String::New("ini"),          String::New(native_ini));
       exports->Set(String::New("net"),          String::New(native_net));
       exports->Set(String::New("posix"),        String::New(native_posix));
       exports->Set(String::New("querystring"),  String::New(native_querystring));
diff --git a/test/simple/test-ini.js b/test/simple/test-ini.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d2bb55122..0000000000
--- a/test/simple/test-ini.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-require("../common");
-var path = require('path'),
-  fs = require("fs"),
-  ini = require("ini"),
-  parse = require("ini").parse;
-
-debug("load fixtures/fixture.ini");
-
-p = path.join(fixturesDir, "fixture.ini");
-
-fs.readFile(p, 'utf8', function(err, data) {
-  if (err) throw err;
-
-  assert.equal(typeof parse, 'function');
-
-  var iniContents = parse(data);
-  assert.equal(typeof iniContents, 'object');
-  
-  var expect = { "-" :
-                 { "root" : "something"
-                 , "url" : "http://example.com/?foo=bar"
-                 }
-               , "the section with whitespace" :
-                 { "this has whitespace" : "yep"
-                 , "just a flag, no value." : true
-                 }
-               , "section" :
-                 { "one" : "two"
-                 , "Foo" : "Bar"
-                 , "this" : "Your Mother!"
-                 , "blank" : ""
-                 }
-               , "Section Two" :
-                 { "something else" : "blah"
-                 , "remove" : "whitespace"
-                 }
-               },
-    expectStr = "root = something\n"+
-                "url = http://example.com/?foo=bar\n"+
-                "[the section with whitespace]\n"+
-                "this has whitespace = yep\n"+
-                "just a flag, no value.\n"+
-                "[section]\n"+
-                "one = two\n"+
-                "Foo = Bar\n"+
-                "this = Your Mother!\n"+
-                "blank = \n"+
-                "[Section Two]\n"+
-                "something else = blah\n"+
-                "remove = whitespace\n";
-
-  assert.deepEqual(iniContents, expect,
-    "actual: \n"+inspect(iniContents) +"\n≠\nexpected:\n"+inspect(expect));
-
-  assert.equal(ini.stringify(iniContents), expectStr,
-    "actual: \n"+inspect(ini.stringify(iniContents)) +"\n≠\nexpected:\n"+inspect(expectStr));
-});
-
-