[Templates] TT and dependencies

[Keith G. Murphy]

Andy Wardley wrote:

>   $ ttree --depend index.html=header,footer,menu
> 
> What it can't do it work out for itself which templates are dependant on
> which other files.  The reason is that the language is dynamically 
> interpreted:
> 
>   [% INCLUDE "$dir/$file" %]
> 
> Without processing the template with live data, there's no way of knowing 

Yes, exactly.

Thanks, everyone, for the input and ideas.

One nice product of knowing dependencies and using make (or the new 
ttree --depend) is that the modtime of the target files would more truly 
reflect the time of the last source change to any component.  I.e., it 
would be when you last did 'make' *and* there really had been a source 
change.

But there are other ways of doing that sort of thing.

Thanks again.