Claude, I've tested a Django based application on 2.2b1 without watchman on Windows, it does tell you about watchman, but it doesn't fail to run. Apparently, it falls back to the old way of reloading. Is this not the behavior on Debian/Ubuntu?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:28 PM Claude Paroz <cla...@2xlibre.net> wrote: > Hi, > > The new watchman-based autoreloader in Django 2.2 is a nice improvement. > However, the main issue in my opinion is that there are no Debian/Ubuntu > official packaging of watchman to my knowledge. > I've been able to compile it without difficulty, but I'm especially > concerned about newcomers and non-experienced programmers which will be > faced to a startup warning message and a rather heavy system load when they > start developing with Django. Telling them they have to compile from > sources to get rid of that is not very friendly at least. > > Tom (Forbes), as the author of this refactoring, could you tell us if it > would be much work to create a pyinotify reloader to fallback when watchman > is not installed? > > Claude > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/23ecaa54-a148-4439-a16b-16937da9e934%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/23ecaa54-a148-4439-a16b-16937da9e934%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFzonYbE4fSy7wsO_wDgHy1X%2BRaWppXejQXB-tnbPtC5RjwwoA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
