[Scons-dev] Shipping one time migration scripts with SCons

[William Blevins]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Anatoly,
>
> On 01.02.2016 20:14, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an interesting thread, which needs some
>> consensus.
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-requests/302/change-the-cache-to-use-2-character/
>>
>>
> "consensus" between whom? And what is your concrete idea about how this
> consensus should be reached? It looks to me as if the issue has been
> properly discussed among the people that are actively working on the pull
> request...and they've reached a consensus already.
> One that I support too, I might add...


I think that a script of this nature should be revision controlled with the
software release that it is related to. I'm not sure when this script
should be removed sadly. I wish I could recommend doing it in the commit
immediately after the first SCons release containing the change, but seems
that many SCons users don't really keep up-to-date, so there is a definite
possibility for people skipping versions of the software.


>
>
> I am against shipping global scripts that are not
>> generally useful to all scons users, but it seems
>> that nobody agrees.
>>
>>
> Yes, I see that you have concerns and your position is on the one side of
> the scale. But the guys that have done all the hard work have a position
> too, which happens to be different from yours (=other side of the scale).
> This happens, please don't take offense over it and get upset.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
>
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