File watcher plans #60

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1. icculus commented on May 29, 2023

   

   icculus

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   That...is an interesting idea. I don't have plans for it atm, but let me look into how this works on various platforms and see if this makes sense!
2. plekakis commented on May 29, 2023

   

   plekakis

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   Thanks for looking into this, I hope other people will find it useful as well.
   The main driving force behind it is to:

   1. Not write a filewatcher which would require additional interop with converting from physical <-> virtual filenames and
   2. Being able to watch virtual directories would give additional flexibility.

   Consider for instance a hot-reload system which watches the asset directory and on file change triggers a recompilation of that asset. I'm sure there's other example use cases.