[Moin-user] Re: bang_meta takes effect only after pages are changed?

[Brian van den Broek]

Alexander Schremmer said unto the world upon 2005-02-04 07:39:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 02:21:32 -0500, Brian van den Broek wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just enabled !EscapingWikiNames by putting
>>bang_meta = True
>>into my wikiconfig.py in my wiki instance dir.
> 
> 
>>I had a few preexisting escaped names here and there, from before I 
>>had changed my config to include the bang_meta = True statement. I 
>>noticed that the escaping of WikiNames didn't take effect on any pages 
>>until after I had changed them and saved the changes. (This held true 
>>even after I shut down my moin.py process and restarted it. I did this 
>>to check to see if it was a manifestation of the problem caused by 
>>WinMe's use of FAT that Alex and I posted about recently.)
> 
> 
>>Is this how it is supposed to work? Did I put the bang_meta = True 
>>line in the correct place? Is it a product of my running a standalone?
> 
> 
> MoinMoin uses internal caching of pages to speed up the rendering. The
> caches are invalidated automatically when the modification time of the
> MoinMoin package directory changes. So you may try to edit a file in there
> to let Windows ME update the directory mtime. But as we saw before, it
> might not always update the mtime on such file edits.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Alexander

Thanks Alexander (and Tomi, too). Since the behaviour persisted after 
terminating and relaunching moin.py, I'd assumed it was independent of 
the issue of the modtime of dirs in the WinMe file system.

Anything else that seems odd, I'll just sit on until the next version 
of MoinMoin.

Thanks again,

Brian vdB