Re: [Rest2web-develop] [Fwd: file removal]

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Michael Foord wrote:
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>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     file removal
> Date:     Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:04:47 +0100
> From:     martin f krafft <ma...@ma...>
> To:     Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...>
>
>
> If I remove foo.txt, I guess it's by design that foo.html is *not*
> deleted? It makes sense, but could we have an option to turn on
> automatic html file deletion?
Well... rest2web doesn't (yet) cache its output. It has no knowledge of 
how files that exist in the output directory got there.

In fact I use rest2web to generate only part of my website. I definitely 
*wouldn't* want it deleting all files in the output directory that it 
didn't put there.

I guess it could make a list of all the files in directories it outputs 
to, and remove from the list any that it puts there. When it has 
completed its run it could delete any still left in the list. Would that 
do, or can you think of a better approach ?

This won't play well with the gallery plugin of course. The difficulty 
is that rest2web can copy files into the output directory, using the 
'file' command in the restindex. If you deleted a source file, would you 
expect rest2web to delete files that are there because it copied them 
across last time ? If you wouldn't expect it to delete them, maybe I can 
restrict files be deleted to 'html' and 'shtml' files (unless you use 
rest2web to generate XML/RSS as well...)

All the best,

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