2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net> > On 15/02/13 14:20, Sebastian Krebs wrote: > >> 2013/2/15 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net**> >> >> Hi Stas, >>> >>> >>> On 14/02/13 22:37, Stas Malyshev wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>>> >>>> A missing feature in PHP is a file system watcher/monitoring available >>>> >>>>> for almost all platforms. On Linux, we have inotify (available in PHP >>>>> through pecl/inotify), on Mac OS X, we have /dev/fsevents (not >>>>> available >>>>> in PHP, since we need ioctl to do that in pure PHP —and sudo—, no C >>>>> extension needed), on FreeBSD, we have FAM, and on Windows, we have >>>>> FileSystemWatcher in .NET. All major platforms have a solution ready to >>>>> use. >>>>> >>>>> I think it'd be great to have a library with unified interface and an >>>> extension that uses it. However, I'm not sure if these libraries are >>>> useful in common php use case - short-lived requests. Could I get the >>>> changes since the last request? Or is it useful only for long-running >>>> persistent processes? >>>> >>>> It is only useful for long-running processes. >>> >>> For example when you are writting tests: at each modifications, you would >>> like to re-run or re-generate tests. In this case, you have a daemon that >>> watches files changes and executes a command when needed. >>> >>> Why do you need PHP for this? >> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/3283228/bash-** >> execute-script-on-file-save#**answer-3283390<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3283228/bash-execute-script-on-file-save#answer-3283390> >> > I don't understand your point.
For the use-case you described here a PHP-implementation is not required, because you can use the system-tools to invoke PHPUnit. In fact you don't need a daemon at all ;) > > > -- > Ivan Enderlin > Developer of Hoa > http://hoa-project.net/ > > PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) > http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/ > > Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C > http://w3.org/ > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- github.com/KingCrunch
