[Catalyst] Cache of unchanging content

[Tomas Doran]

On 2 Mar 2011, at 05:43, John M. Dlugosz wrote:

> On 3/1/2011 9:58 AM, Bill Moseley moseley-at-hank.org |Catalyst/ 
> Allow to home| wrote:
>> At build time I minimize and compress css and js (and images) and  
>> combine
>> into single files grouped by page(s).  They could be pre-processed  
>> by TT
>> very easily.  The final file names include an MD5 of their content  
>> forcing a
>> re-fetch only if they ever change.
> So you added that to the makefile somehow?  I take it the generated  
> name must be supplied to the page's template once it is known.  I'd  
> like to learn more about your system.

Yes, you can append things to the Makefile to

> So if you make a small change, you have to re-install the whole  
> app?  If the file name changes, I can't just use Unison to sync the  
> directory on the production server.

Yes!

Installing to production servers via rsync / unison is insane, as  
there is exactly no way of knowing what version the production server  
is on, with what bugs... Which means that all bug reports become  
useless - as you never know if the user was using the site before or  
after you fixed (or, more often, you think you fixed, but didn't  
really fix a bug)..

Cheers
t0m