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From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-17 12:05:01


Beman Dawes wrote:
> My gut feeling is that we should (1) comment out the modification date
> check, and always copy the file, except (2) do a check for self and
> source resolving to the same file, and never do the copy in that case.
>
> Since an == condition on the date compare is currently treated as the
> file being out-of-date, and thus copied, testers are used to their copy
> being overwritten. Thus I don't see any harm in always doing so, but
> wanted to check with you before making these changes.
>
> What do you think?

Since that's essentially what I do already, it seems reasonable.

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