delta: A library for detecting file changes

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Delta is a library for detecting file changes in any given directory. The package is written using the sodium FRP library but it also provides a callback based API.

File changes on OS X are based on the FSEvents API that is also used by TimeMachine. On other operating systems the library currently uses recursive descents in directories. I will include inotify for Linux. If someone would like to have a non-polling based API for windows or BSD, I would really like it if anyone would contribute.

The project also contains an executable, delta-run, which allows you to run arbitrary shell commands when a file in a directory (recursively) changes.

$> delta-run --help
Usage: delta-run [-i|--interval INTERVAL] [-v|--verbose] FILE CMD
Available options:
-h,--help                Show this help text
-i,--interval INTERVAL   Run at most every n seconds
-v,--verbose             Print extra output
FILE                     The directory that is watched
CMD                      The command to run

For example you could use delta-run to rebuild your project everytime the source changes like this:

delta-run ./src "cabal build"

Flags

Automatic Flags
NameDescriptionDefault
build_fs_events

Build in FSEvents support (OS X)

Enabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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Versions [RSS] 0.1.0.0, 0.1.0.1, 0.1.2.0, 0.2.0.0, 0.2.1.0, 0.2.1.1, 0.2.1.2
Dependencies base (>=4.6 && <4.9), containers (>=0.5), delta, directory (>=1.2), filepath (>=1.3), hfsevents (>=0.1.5), optparse-applicative (>=0.10), process (>=1.2), sodium (>=0.11), time (>=1.5) [details]
License LGPL-3.0-only
Author Christof Schramm
Maintainer christof.schramm@campus.lmu.de
Revised Revision 2 made by muzzle at 2015-07-23T21:07:40Z
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Home page https://github.com/kryoxide/delta
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/kryoxide/delta.git
Uploaded by muzzle at 2015-07-23T17:23:29Z
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Executables delta-run, delta-cli
Downloads 5191 total (2 in the last 30 days)
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Status Docs available [build log]
Last success reported on 2015-07-23 [all 1 reports]