On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Peter Wilkinson wrote:
> On 09/02/2006, at 9:23 PM, mario ruggier wrote:
>
>> Maybe in quixote or qp, a separate script/process could watch
>> specific source files, as well as (re-)spawn off the actual web
>> process.
>
> I use a very similar idea for development in another web framework
> running under a Medusa server that I'm migrating from to QP at the
> moment. I looked what Cherrypy was doing and decided that I didn't
> need the complication of threads. All I do is start my dev server
> with a wrapper script that does a 'find' for all *.py files (could be
> *.qpy) in ./lib and checks that list every second with stat and
> restarts the main process if a file is modified. Given that we'd
> never run anything like this in production we were more than happy to
> live with the obvious limitations of this approach given how simple
> the wrapper script is.

Would you post such a script? Maybe just a gutted version... Was just
about to suggest you add it to the qx wiki... and I discover there is
already a relevant entry: http://www.quixote.ca/qx/ReloadChangedPages