Re: Using hash instead of timestamps to check for changes.

2015-04-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 13:20 +0200, Glen Stark wrote: > You asked "what if people want to define their own "out-of-date-ness" > test?". I found that a really exciting idea. As I thought about > this, I realized I what I really want is not to replace Make's current > behavior, but to add an

Re: Using hash instead of timestamps to check for changes.

2015-04-04 Thread Tim Murphy
> > >My thinking is that the timestamp is in fact an overly conservative > > test. We never have the case that the timestamp indicates something > > *has not* been changed when in fact it has (i.e. we always build if > > something has changed), > > That's interesting, because in my exper