X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4a20402ba0da25b5f47aaa5c6bc7b9184816cd50..0b733575a44a527b54afc75b4c2b87b8bc5872a3:/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn index b073f190b..c44fe7962 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/transitive_dependencies.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ If a sidebar contains a map, or inline (etc), one would expect a -change/add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki +add/remove of any of the mapped/inlined pages to cause a full wiki rebuild. But this does not happen. If page A inlines page B, which inlines page C, a change to C will cause B @@ -55,13 +55,40 @@ Downsides here: average, still 2x as much worst case. I suppose building a directed graph and traversing it would be theoretically more efficient.) * Causes extra work for some transitive dependencies that we don't - actually care about. For example, changing index causes + actually care about. This is amelorated, but not solved by + the current work on [[todo/dependency_types]]. + For example, changing index causes plugins/brokenlinks to update in the first pass; if there's a second - pass, plugins/map is then updated, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks. + pass, plugins/map is no longer updated (contentless dependencies FTW), + but plugins is, because it depends on plugins/brokenlinks. (Of course, this is just a special case of the issue that a real - modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of plugins/map, - because we have [[only_one_kind_of_dependency|todo/dependency_types]].) - (Fixed now for cases like this one where contenless dependencies avoid - the unnecessary work.) + modification to plugins/brokenlinks causes an unnecessary update of + plugins, and could be solved by adding more dependency types.) ---[[Joey]] +[[done]] --[[Joey]] + +> Some questions/comments... I've thought about this a lot for [[todo/tracking_bugs_with_dependencies]]. +> +> * When you say that anything that causes a rebuild of B is treated as a change of B, are you: i) Treating +> any rebuild as a change, or ii) Treating any rebuild that gives a new result as a change? Option ii) would +> lead to fewer rebuilds. Implementation is easy: when you're about to rebuild a page, load the old rendered html in. Do the rebuild. Compare +> the new and old html. If there is a difference, then mark that page as having changed. If there is no difference +> then you don't need to mark that pages as changed, even though it has been rebuilt. (This would ignore pages in meta-data that don't +> cause changes in html, but I don't think that is a huge issue.) + +>> That is a good idea. I will have to look at it to see if the overhead of +>> reading back in the html of every page before building actually is a +>> win though. So far, I've focused on avoiding unnecessary rebuilds, and +>> there is still some room for more dependency types doing so. +>> (Particularly for metadata dependencies..) --[[Joey]] + +> * The second comment I have relates to cycles in transitive dependencies. At the moment I don't think this is +> possible, but with some additions it may well become so. This could be problematic as it could lead to a) +> updates that never complete, or b) it being theoretically unclear what the final result should be (i.e. you +> can construct logical paradoxes in the system). I think the point above about marking things as changed only when +> the output actually changes fixes any cases that are well defined. For logical paradoxes and infinite loops (e.g. +> two pages that include each other), you might want to put a limit on the number of times you'll rebuild a page in any +> given run of ikiwiki. Say, only allow a page to rebuild twice on any run, regardless of whether a page it depends on changes. +> This is not a perfect solution, but would be a good approximation. -- [[Will]] + +>> Ikiwiki only builds any given output file once per run, already. --[[Joey]]