Hello list,

I'm brand new to Gadgets development, and, while I've found the
documentation pretty good at boostrapping one into getting a gadget up
and running, I didn't find any references on how to setup a
development enviroment for gadgets.

What do I mean?

Well, I noticed that using the online editor can be good for simple
gadgets (and or for the experienced iterationless gadget developer),
but using it brings several limitations IMO:
 * You can't version control the file(s);
 * Publishing it manually everytime is a pain.

What I did was to publish my gadget directory under subdomain of mine.
Then, I published this URL as a gadget on iGoogle. So far, so good. I
then came back to good old emacs, hacked in some gadget-XML and came
back to Firefox, pressed F5 and... still the old gadget. Tried several
times and also on other browsers and got the same result.

Now, I would definetly expect at least an iGoogle developer mode,
where gadgets are reloaded on refresh. Am I missing something?

The best, though, and I would leave it as a suggestion for future
releases, would be to have a local google gadget toolchain to test
them without the need to be connected to the internet. Much faster.

Thanks in advance,

Marcelo.

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