I got sick of not having a unified way of managing auto-rebuiding across the variety of tools I use (compass, coffescript, closure compiler, rake, etc) so I built something similar. I just wanted to say if * changes, run X, oh and by the way please debounce change events before running X. And the app needed to be easy for other devs to use it reliably and reproducibly.
As I typed it I was thinking that debouncing change events would be nice; as I wrote the above, you'll get several events depending on what operations you're performing.
It happens that subsequent invocations of 'make' will be blindingly fast because it will check inode timestamps (by default, you can force make to look deeper if you have Reasons) and because those inodes will still be cached "somewhere" in the kernel. So, debouncing isn't critical for this particular use case, but it would give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I got sick of not having a unified way of managing auto-rebuiding across the variety of tools I use (compass, coffescript, closure compiler, rake, etc) so I built something similar. I just wanted to say if * changes, run X, oh and by the way please debounce change events before running X. And the app needed to be easy for other devs to use it reliably and reproducibly.
https://github.com/apinstein/watchngo