[Templates] compilied cache versions

[Bill Ward]

On 5/10/07, Travis Basevi <travis.basevi@wisdengroup.com> wrote:
> Ignoring the task of fixing the faults (and faulty people) in our setup,
> is there a reason why the .ttc version only updates if the .tt2 has a
> newer mtime? As far as I can tell, the guilty code is the following in
> Provider.pm,v 2.88:
>
>                  if ($compiled && -f $compiled
>                      && (stat($path))[9] <= (stat($compiled))[9]) {
>
> Assuming the .ttc is always set to the mtime of the .tt2 (can't find the
> code that does this, but observations suggest this), could the <=
> instead be changed to == thus ensuring the compiled version has to match
> (or at least have the same mtime) as the tt2 file?

Would that help, though?  The timestamps being equal seems like an
unlikely case.  I think in your situation the derived file would be
newer than the template.

How about an option to disable the timestamp check and unconditionally
do the conversion?