Miro Kropáček wrote:
To me it looks very logical, it's very smart!
Except in one case, in contexts like Makefiles: - get and old .c file - compile it to a .o- someone gives you a newer version of the .c file. It was modified after the original one, but before you built your .o. Copy that new .c file over your old one. - type make. Nothing is rebuilt, because the modification time of the new .c is older than the modification time of the .o file.
The problem is similar in web server contexts, when changes are not taken in account. I hit this problem quite often when updating JSP pages using the Windows explorer.
-- Vincent Rivière