**Goal:** 1. User activates/deactivates a plugin 2. Program re-compiles with/without the plugin 3. The program starts up again
My program is a [website manager](https://nimwc.org) which is browser based. The user can enable and disable plugins from the plugin-page. The plugins are included at compiletime with macros, therefore I need to close the program, re-compile it with user specified parameters and then start it again. I have been experimenting with execCmd() and startProcess() in various combination with supporting _.sh_ and _.nim_ files. But when my program has been recompiled under a new name, e.g. _-o:newName_ , I am closing ( _quit()_ ) the main-program-process, but this closes the child-processes running the support files, which should start the main-program-process again = the new compiled program does not start again. My current solution is using a _script.sh_ with a loop and checking for _newName_ on each loop, but I do not want to force the end user to use this script for running the program. until ./main-program; do echo "main-program exited $?. Respawning.." >&2 sleep 1 cp main-program main-program.bak mv newName main-program done
