Re: [Rest2web-develop] timestamps, svn and modtime

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Andrew Straw wrote:
>> I'm in the process of updating my websites to use rest2web, but I'm
>> hitting one problem -- I keep my files under subversion, which seems
>> unable to maintain a file's "mtime" (
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1256 ). Thus, when I
>> check out the source for my site  with svn, the modtimes are all screwed
>> up. Does anyone have any solutions? Of course, I could simply remove the
>> <% modtime %> from my template, but there must be a better way.
>>
>> The simplest idea I have at the moment is Python code in my template
>> that calls svn and asks for the svn commit time. This could fail
>> gracefully to the file systems mtime if the file was not under svn.
>>   
> 
> I like this idea and I can't think of a better solution off the top of 
> my head.

OK, I did this and wrote it up at http://code.astraw.com/this-website.html