[Scons-users] Does SCons has an automatic rebuild option ?

[Managan, Rob]

You could consider looking at the -interactive mode and seeing if you
could add something that periodically calls "build"

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On 10/31/12 5:44 AM, "Julien Kauffmann" <julien.kauffmann at freelan.org>
wrote:


>On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:06:48 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Lab

><jeanbaptiste.lab at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hi Julien

>> 

>> On 31 October 2012 11:48, Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>>> It sounds like what you want is a continous integration system.

>>> This is a slightly different job from a build tool and it usually

>>>makes more

>>> sense have the continousl integration system use

>>> the build tool rather than to combine the two into.

>>> I would recommend looking at Jenkins for a good open source continuous

>>> integration server though it might be overkill for your needs.

>>> I don't know how well it plays with scons as it comes from java land

>>>but I

>>> have used it with some success on plain old makefile projects.

>> 

>> I agree with Bruce's comments, it may not make sense to build this

>> functionality into SCons. There are ways for you to achieve what you

>> want relatively easily using a "file watching utility". I quickly

>> found this link which you may find useful:

>> 

>> 

>>http://superuser.com/questions/181517/how-to-execute-a-command-whenever-a

>>-file-changes

>> 

>> Regards,

>> 

>> JB

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>

>Hi,

>

>That sure looks like a continuous integration system to some extent.

>

>I knew Jenkins but that is indeed too heavy for the task: the goal was

>mainly to provide an easy and integrated way to easy the work for a

>developer that spends a lot of time typing "scons" in his terminal.

>

>Actually, before asking this question, I was already able to get a

>satisfying and quick result with "watchmedo", the script that comes with

>the [watchdog](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog) Python module.

>

>The final command looked like:

>

>> watchmedo shell-command --patterns="*.scss" --command="scons"

>

>I was mainly thinking about having an option for that in SCons because

>SCons has all the necessary information to do that more efficiently

>(from a list of targets, it knows exactly what to watch and what to

>rebuild).

>

>That said, I can understand the rationale that SCons should just handle

>"regular" one-time builds and not become an over-featured tool.

>

>So anyway, thanks for your answers and feedback.

>

>Regards,

>

>Julien Kauffmann.

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