"""distutils.dep_util

Utility functions for simple, timestamp-based dependency of files

and groups of files; also, function based entirely on such

timestamp dependency analysis."""

# This module should be kept compatible with Python 2.1.

__revision__ = "$Id: dep_util.py 58049 2007-09-08 00:34:17Z skip.montanaro $"

import os

from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError

def newer (source, target):

    """Return true if 'source' exists and is more recently modified than

    'target', or if 'source' exists and 'target' doesn't.  Return false if

    both exist and 'target' is the same age or younger than 'source'.

    Raise DistutilsFileError if 'source' does not exist.

    """

    if not os.path.exists(source):

        raise DistutilsFileError, ("file '%s' does not exist" %

                                   os.path.abspath(source))

    if not os.path.exists(target):

        return 1

    from stat import ST_MTIME

    mtime1 = os.stat(source)[ST_MTIME]

    mtime2 = os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]

    return mtime1 > mtime2

# newer ()

def newer_pairwise (sources, targets):

    """Walk two filename lists in parallel, testing if each source is newer

    than its corresponding target.  Return a pair of lists (sources,

    targets) where source is newer than target, according to the semantics

    of 'newer()'.

    """

    if len(sources) != len(targets):

        raise ValueError, "'sources' and 'targets' must be same length"

    # build a pair of lists (sources, targets) where  source is newer

    n_sources = []

    n_targets = []

    for i in range(len(sources)):

        if newer(sources[i], targets[i]):

            n_sources.append(sources[i])

            n_targets.append(targets[i])

    return (n_sources, n_targets)

# newer_pairwise ()

def newer_group (sources, target, missing='error'):

    """Return true if 'target' is out-of-date with respect to any file

    listed in 'sources'.  In other words, if 'target' exists and is newer

    than every file in 'sources', return false; otherwise return true.

    'missing' controls what we do when a source file is missing; the

    default ("error") is to blow up with an OSError from inside 'stat()';

    if it is "ignore", we silently drop any missing source files; if it is

    "newer", any missing source files make us assume that 'target' is

    out-of-date (this is handy in "dry-run" mode: it'll make you pretend to

    carry out commands that wouldn't work because inputs are missing, but

    that doesn't matter because you're not actually going to run the

    commands).

    """

    # If the target doesn't even exist, then it's definitely out-of-date.

    if not os.path.exists(target):

        return 1

    # Otherwise we have to find out the hard way: if *any* source file

    # is more recent than 'target', then 'target' is out-of-date and

    # we can immediately return true.  If we fall through to the end

    # of the loop, then 'target' is up-to-date and we return false.

    from stat import ST_MTIME

    target_mtime = os.stat(target)[ST_MTIME]

    for source in sources:

        if not os.path.exists(source):

            if missing == 'error':      # blow up when we stat() the file

                pass

            elif missing == 'ignore':   # missing source dropped from

                continue                #  target's dependency list

            elif missing == 'newer':    # missing source means target is

                return 1                #  out-of-date

        source_mtime = os.stat(source)[ST_MTIME]

        if source_mtime > target_mtime:

            return 1

    else:

        return 0

# newer_group ()