Templates not getting recompiled

I've been using smarty for a few months, and have found it to work really well. However, I have seen a situation where a template is updated, yet smarty doesn't detect the change and recompile it. After some research, it turns out the problem is that smarty compares the template's mtime to the compiled template's mtime. This works, as long at the updated template has a newer mtime than the compiled version. This assumes that every time a template is updated, its mtime changes to the current time. Unfortunately, in our case, this isn't always true. Our development group writes the software and packages it using RPM. Then QA tests it and finally production updates the public servers. When the packages are installed, the files have the mtime of when the developers last changed the templates, not when they were installed on the public servers. This occasionally results in the template mtime being older than the latest compile mtime. The attached patch fixes this by setting the mtime of the compiled version to the mtime of the original file. Thanks. Peter

Attachment: [text/x-patch] Smarty-2.3.0-mtime.patch