Re: Fwd: Suggestion about derived files and commands

[Rajesh Vaidheeswarran]

Well, That's a good argument.. it is really trivial to add it
to cons.. 




In a previous message, Greg Spencer writes:

> 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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