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The <makelayer> task always recreates the layers even if the contents are unchanged. In vcsgeneric module, this means that vcsgeneric.jar is always recreated even when there is no source change. It should avoid changing the timestamp on the layer, or creating a new copy of the layer at all, if the contents would not change.
Target milestone -> 3.3
Reassigning to Jesse
Target milestone was changed from 'not determined' to TBD.
Is this (still) an issue?
Appears to have been fixed long ago in MakeLayer.java: revision 1.6 date: 2001/11/07 19:05:33; author: mzlamal; state: Exp; lines: +25 -34 Nested topdirs are no more used. Added up to date checking