Abandonware user self-registration procedure in Joomla core

[Demis Palma]

Joomla 3.6 has two different controllers intended to create a new user:

UsersControllerRegistration::register()

defined in components/com_users/controllers/registration.php and

UsersControllerUser::register()

defined in components/com_users/controllers/user.php

Looking at their source code, both the methods looks like very similar, and do the same job.

Nevertheless, while the former is used for user self registration, it seems that the latter is not user anywhere.

I just want to know whether UsersControllerUser::register() is actually unused code or no.