[Scons-users] Adding support for policy based CacheDir pruning?

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Andrew C. Morrow <
andrew.c.morrow at gmail.com> wrote:


>

> ...

> I think the utility of CacheDir would be greatly improved by implementing

> some sort of built-in cache eviction mechanism. I think a good solution to

> this would:

>

> - Allow the injection of a user designed cache limit policy.

> - Provide a default policy that capped the cache size at some modest limit

> and evicted in LRU or age order, with the size cap and age limit easily

> specified by the user.

> - Handle cache entry removal within SCons, based on the results of

> evaluating the currently active policy. The policy should not need to

> interact with the actual files in the cache or know anything about the

> cache internals.

>

> Is there interest in such a feature? Has it been attempted before? Would

> the SCons maintainers be willing to consider patches to add this sort of

> feature? Roadmap? I'd be willing to do some work towards this, but only if

> it seems possible, and stands some reasonable chance of becoming part of

> the official SCons project.

>


Yes, no, definitely, not so far, and that would be great! :-)

In other words, go for it -- it would definitely be appreciated.

-- 
Gary
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