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

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:57 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 am not for removing the script. I am against adding it to PATH. Let people
do migrations, but they can discover and/or download the script the other
way. So I am comfortable with it in main SCons repository.

-- 
anatoly t.