This is very common, and the code has to test each type differently, since
the list of candidates to test, as well as the test, will vary per type.
Much happier with this code now.
This new method for determining when links on pages
have changed should be more efficient, since it avoids
double calculation of the bestlinks.
It also allows collecting data about the old links, before
the scan pass, so the data is accurate when pages move around
and bestlinks change.
Also got some code back to a saner indent level.
This makes it more efficient.
It also fixes the same bug that I fixed in orphans recently,
that only changes to the set of displayed pages were considered (or amoung),
which missed changes to links on other pages to those.
Probably this bug was never noticed because pagestats is most often put
on a blog type page, which gets updated anyway when posts change,
and thus the tag cloud was updated.
A map just seems a better fit for reference, since it deliniates the
contrib plugins better, and orders better.
It also has the advantage of being less expensive, since the plugins page
does not need to update when eg, the pagecount page changes.
Only downside is, no rss feed of new plugins. Which I know a few people
were subscribed to.
This makes it more efficient.
It also fixes a longstanding bug, where if only a small set of pages were
considered by orphans, changes to links on other pages failed to cause an
update.
Involved some code refactoring so that same code that detects
link changes for backlinks updating can be used for link dependency
checking. The nice thing is that link dep checking is thus
comopletly free!
Joey Hess
http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/
Jon Dowland