On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:25:28 -0300 Stephen Eilert <[email protected]>
> 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?
>
>
Will do it later today :)



-- Stephen
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