[ZPT] Tempalte "program" not persistent

[John]

John wrote:

> Richard Jones wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 18 September 2001 12:10, Evan Simpson wrote:
> > > Richard Jones wrote:
> > > > We're having problems with the non-persistence of the page template
> > > > programs. The first being that it takes a while to cook the templates,
> > > > and that has to be done every time the server is restarted. The second is
> > > > that we see strange problems with the program only being updated in some
> > > > threads (we think).
> > >
> > > The first is expected, the second isn't.  If you could pin that behavior
> > > down reproducibly, I'd appreciate it.
>
> > That's one of the problems - it's not exactly consistent (which is why we're
> > blaming it on threads). It's on my TODO to get a solid example, and when I
> > do, I'll let you know :)
>
> I've encountered similar behaviour when testing templates from the file system
> in debugging mode. I
> suspect that some templates are not being recooked under certain circumstances -
> possibly if they are
> a macro that you've just updated and are looking at by reloading a page that
> call it. I'll test this hypothesis later today.

I tested several flavours of template access and couldn't replicate the lack of
update
behaviour, so it may well be thread related.

John