Yelp/mrjob — Issue #318: use "tmp" rather than "scratch" in options
Author: davidmarin
Created: 2011-12-20 23:07:19+00:00
State: open
Labels: Cleanup

we have options called `base_tmp_dir`, `hdfs_scratch_uri`, and `s3_scratch_uri`. Default scratch URIs have `tmp` in them (not `scratch`).

I'm sure I thought having two names for the same thing was a good idea at the time, but we should really just call everything `tmp`. The old option names should still work, and be deprecated in v0.4, and be removed in v0.5. Probably should use `tmp` rather than `scratch` for internal function and variable names as well.