[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript terminology caching #2

[Eric Nieuwland]

has wrote:
> Another idea: would checking an application's creation/modification 
> date be a viable way to avoid the cache going bad when a newer version 
> of the app is installed in exactly the same location?

How are you going to check "an application's creation/modification 
date"? Don't use the file/directory attributes for this! 'ctime' is 
unreliable for this to say the least. And 'mtime' is often tricky on 
directories.

--eric