Re: [Chicken-users] OCD Egg

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:25:28 -0300 Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> wrote:

> I know it's been a while, I've been quite busy the last few months.
> Unfortunatly, that's not Chicken-related :(
>
> However, I want to redeem myself. Therefore, I am requesting comments on a
> simple egg I've made. It is not yet what you would consider "stable", but I am
> already using it for some time now to develop my projects.
>
> For those who know them, it is similar to 'autotest' or 'guard'. That is, it
> scans the filesystem and runs a command whenever the files it is interested in
> have changed. This is useful specially for those who like to code using 
> tests. 
>
> Its default behaviour is to scan for .scm files in the current directory and,
> whenever any files have changed their timestamps, it tries to run a Makefile.
> You can customize it somewhat with a .ocdrc file, in order to filter a
> different file set, or run a different command when they have changed. You can
> force a run by hitting Control+C, or abort it hitting Control+C twice.
>
> It is currently missing support for inotify (or fsevent under OSX), so it 
> needs
> to poll the filesystem (by default, every two seconds). This might be a 
> problem
> for large projects, but so far this has not bothered me much.
>
> So, what do you guys think? I intend to improve it some more if at least one
> more person finds it useful :)
>
> This is the repository: https://github.com/outworlder/OCD

Looks very nice, Stephen.

There's some chicken code for inotify at
https://github.com/xlevus/chicken-stuff/blob/master/inotify.scm , in
case you want to support it.

Anyway, if it works and it is useful to you, why not add it to the egg
repository?

Best wishes.
Mario
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