My current feeling is that a special variable *stamp* should hold the "latest known timestamp" involved in current action's dependencies. Also, we should base such stamp purely on filesystem write-date's, not at all on get-universal-time.
I've started work on that. My solution-in-progress requires backwards-incompatibilities, but I believe these can be reverted by my currently making *stamp* a special variable.
My current feeling is that a special variable *stamp* should hold the "latest known timestamp" involved in current action's dependencies. Also, we should base such stamp purely on filesystem write-date's, not at all on get-universal-time.
I've started work on that. My solution- in-progress requires backwards- incompatibiliti es, but I believe these can be reverted by my currently making *stamp* a special variable.