[Koha-devel] tools should they be command line executable as well ?

[MJ Ray]

Paul Poulain asked:
> On http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5636 Ian
> asked a question last month no-one answered. So I ask it here:
> > Style question to the community:  should core pages in the staff client (like
> > tools/cleanborrowers.pl) have both a templated page in the staff client AND a
> > command-line presence, or should the commandline tool be a separate script in
> > misc/? [...]
> My answer is:
> * right, there is no precedent
> * This feature to clean borrowers from command line is highly useful :
> most libraries want to define a rule, and have it applied every week,
> through a cronjob. But some want to clean manually. So it's meaningful
> to have a script for both cases.
> * I think it's fair to have this script run from both, and it's better
> than having 2 scripts for that, it's easier to maintain [...]

Would it be better to move the shared logic into a C4 module and have
both the staff web script and a misc CLI script?  Having scripts behave
differently depending on invocation environment seems a bit risky.

Hope that helps,
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