RE: Fwd: Suggestion about derived files and commands

[Greg Spencer]

Hmm, seems to me that cons *is* a script, and certainly the most qualified
script to do cache cleanup.  Perhaps a new feature could be a flag that
simply cleans up the cache and exits?

                        -Greg.

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From: Brad Garcia <address@hidden>
> Or, instead of some index file, you could have files in the cache
> whose names are the build signature, but whose contents are the
> content signature.
>
> This way, all the files are in the cache, and no new directory
> structure needs to be developed in the cache.

But you do now have to have a script to prune the cache.  Just looking
at link count will not be enough.

-Wayne

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