[WM] [Q] Dependecies

[Justin Mason]

Chris said:

> > 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.

hmm... that's odd, alright.

BTW if you can provide a small test-case I can turn that into a test
script for the "t" directory.  handy to fix the bug, and handy to make
sure it stays fixed afterwards ;)

> 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>.

OK, that's not good.  They should be depending on the file from which the
<metatable> is loaded.

> Only the one I already posted :-). How do you generate the WebMake docu?

The webmake docs are generated using, you guessed it, WebMake ;)
"documentation.wmk" in the doc directory.

For the <lang> tag -- it's POD documentation, embedded in the lang_tag.wmk
plugin file.  see the sitetree_tag.wmk or other files in that dir for an
example.  (Note however that the titles for those files are loaded from a
metatable in the documentation.wmk file).

For non-plugin docs, it's loaded from the .txt files in the doc dir.

> Shal l I just write something and you integrate it in the main tree or
> should I refe r to some style guides?

Just write something and I'll integrate it.  I haven't come up with any
style guides or similar yet.

> 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)

hmm.  sounds like a bug...  I have a test which seems to work OK for this,
though.  maybe mail me the exact text that's failing and I'll see what's
up?

(aside: the "Auto: [link]: url" feature is very handy BTW.   That way you
can just define words which are auto-linked and forget about the [[ and ]]
tags in the text.  it's my current favourite ;)

--j.

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