Freeland, did you actually try this out? You're killing the desk-rebuild experience here, because when you force gwt-dev to rebuild every time, that trickles down into a rebuild of user, samples, the whole nine yards.
Adding gwt.svnrev into the name of the sentinel file would be a much better alternative. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Freeland Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > That's as good a cause for a -1 as any, I suppose... attached no longer > uses non-static "this" in static context, and also untangles (by removal) > the creation of a sentinel file to gate the filtering. I believe the > sentinel exists so that a change in gwt.version will cause the extant file > to be considered out-of-date regardless of timestamp, but we'd now need > another one for change in gwt.svnrev, and it seems the original test (much > less the expanded one!) is probably more expensive than just refiltering > each time! > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Scott Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 'Fraid I'm going to have to give this a -1 on account of not compiling. :) >> >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Freeland Abbott < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Rajeev noted that my initializer in About.java is an instance >>> initializer, not (as intended) a static one. Things appear to work anyway >>> because they pull from about.txt and .html, but programmatic access would be >>> uninitialized.... >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
