Feature request: Cache cleanup

[TrevorBurnham]

Describe the feature

As a regular CDK user, the ~/Library/Caches/com.amazonaws.jsii dir on my Mac (aka defaultCacheRoot) has steadily grown. It currently stands at over 13GB, mostly made up of old versions of CDK dependencies.

I'd like to request some mechanism for preventing this cache from growing indefinitely.

Use Case

I should be able to use CDK without having to worry about gradually running out of disk space.

Proposed Solution

Two options, which are not mutually exclusive:

1. Add a documented "clear cache" command to the CDK CLI that would allow users to clear the contents of the JSII cache directory (and possibly other caches as well; my ~/Library/Caches/aws-cdk-lib and ~/Library/Caches/@aws-cdk stand at a total of 3GB).
2. Add a system for automatically removing items from the cache that have not been used in a certain amount of time (say, 30 days). For example, on each run JSII could touch files that it reads from the cache, then delete all files in the cache whose mtime is over the time limit.

Other Information

No response

Acknowledgements

• I may be able to implement this feature request
• This feature might incur a breaking change

CDK version used

2.178.2

Environment details (OS name and version, etc.)

macOS 15.3.1