The local file publishing implementation violates the established rules of versioning. Namely that a file cannot change size, doing so would imply a version change. The implementation needs to be changes to respect the versioning rules. This likely implies that we will need to implement checksum generation utilities to detect file changes. Currently filesize is used to detect changes, this appears to be an unreliable detection method.

Note: This was written in the context of NCL publishing, so it maybe the case that software files have different rules and therefore shouldn't be a specialization of dataset.