[Templates] TT and dependencies

[Keith G. Murphy]

I've seen on the list where there's a patch forthcoming to ttree to 
support dependencies, that will allow command line specification and 
automatic inclusion of INCLUDE and PROCESS targets into a global 
dependency list.

I would imagine you'd all agree that actual build dependencies go 
farther than that: plugins would probably be really hard to deal with in 
this kind of framework.

Has anyone given thought or have a solution to the problem of expressing 
all possible dependencies in a page build?  I'm thinking of the 
situation of static builds and Makefiles.

In this case, the useful thing would be to efficiently emit a list of 
dependencies without actually generating the targets.  Kind of like 'gcc 
-M', if you get my drift...

I would assume that any plugin that used an input file would have to be 
hooked into whatever scheme was used.

It all seems kind of insuperable, really, since we're dealing with an 
interpretive language here, but I'd like to hear how/if others have 
dealt with this issue.
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