[WM] [Q] Dependecies

[Chris]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:51PM +1100, Justin Mason wrote:
>
> The dependency stuff uses file modification times (which are the only
> thing that we can check quickly to see if data has been modified).
> 
> So if you have metadata embedded in the content text file itself using
> <wmmeta>, it has no choice but to rebuild; there's only one fiile
> modification date for the entire file.
> 
> However if the output matches what's already on-disk, then it will
> not overwrite it anyway -- so it's not a big problem.

Sometimes it happens to me that no file is rebuild despite having changed
something within a content. Maybe it is an issue with the language extension.

> 
> I'm not sure how the dependencies for <metatable>s work though...

They are just added with "from" set to the content which, in turn, has the
dependency for the actual file. So there is, regarding the dependecies,  no
difference between including metadata with <wmmeta> and using <metatable>.

> 
> BTW, is there doco for the <lang> tag and other new features?  I'd
> be interested in tidying it up for a release soon-ish...

Only the one I already posted :-). How do you generate the WebMake docu? Shall
I just write something and you integrate it in the main tree or should I refer
to some style guides?


I also have small problem with EtText. The short version for links, where
link text and link identifier are the same ( e.g. "[[WebMake]]" ), does not
work. Is it a known problem or my mistake (WebMake version 2.3)

Regards,
Chris