when building static site, copy skin files only if they have been modified
since the last static site build
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Key: FOR-1175
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1175
Project: Forrest
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Launch 'forrest'
Affects Versions: 0.9-dev
Reporter: Brolin Empey
Priority: Minor
Years ago, I asked about this issue on the user mailing list:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.forrest.user/4391/match=skin+directory+copied+unconditionally+static+site+build>
AFAIK, nothing has changed since then. I want to report the issue here so it
does not get forgotten.
Anyway:
When I rebuild my static site, the "skin" directory seems to be copied
unconditionally to the build/site/ directory. This means that, because the
local files have been rewritten and consequently have newer modification times
than the remote files, skin/ is uploaded each time I use lftp's reverse mirror
function to publish changes to my public Web site, even if nothing in the skin
has changed.
The Ant target that copies the non-generated content to build/site/ should be
changed to copy files (including skin files) only if the source file has
changed. Maybe rsync could be used to copy non-generated content.
If no one fixes this issue, I may use oDesk to hire someone to fix the issue.
I have already had success with using oDesk to hire Michal Sciubidlo to fix
Mozilla.org bug 269728. I have hired Michal again to fix Mozilla.org bug
178506.
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