Re: [Rest2web-develop] Bug & feature request about file keyword in restindex

[Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>]

Andrew Ittner wrote:

>Fuzzyman:
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>Regarding the timestamp, make 2 calls:
>shutil.copyfile(src, dest)
>shutil.copystat(src, dest)
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Hello Andrew,

Thanks.

I'll get it to compare timestamp *and* size, and will make the change
above. Expect this to get into SVN in the next few days.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml

>The second method should (according to the docs) "Copy the permission bits,
>last access time, and last modification time from src to dest. The file
>contents, owner, and group are unaffected."
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>Andrew
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: res...@li...
>>[mailto:res...@li...]On Behalf Of
>>Fuzzyman
>>Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:01 AM
>>To: res...@li...
>>Subject: Re: [Rest2web-develop] Bug & feature request about file keyword
>>in restindex
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>>Andrew Ittner wrote:
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>>>(This e-mail started as part of a private exchange; per
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>>Fuzzyman's request
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>>>I'm posting it to the dev list.)
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>>>[files get copied on every build]
>>>[snip..]
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>>>	I can get rest2web to check the compare directory first
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>>though. Should it
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>>>check file contents or just the timestamp ?
>>>Me:
>>>Have it check the timestamp.  I don't see a need to compare
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>>file contents
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>>>just yet - and that may be unnecessary anyway, as I can always
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>>dump the file
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>>>into the output directory without using rest2web.
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>>But if copying the file changes the timestamp... then it will compare
>>differently each time. (I use ``shutil.copyfile`` I *think*.)
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>>Perhaps comparing contents is the thing to do...
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>>The other issue definitely smells like a bug. I'll fix it. :-)
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>>Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>>Fuzzyman
>>http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
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