Watch & Workspace: path error

[vincentberthier]

Hey there, I’m trying out Bacon on a rather complex project organized in a Workspace. I’ve configured a number of jobs, which are all launched correctly, no problem.

However, the watch directories are borked. From what I see in the logs, the directories in the watch use the first crate as the root. For example let’s say ̇I have: Folder1 Folder2 If I put watch = ["Folder1", "Folder2"] then beacon will complain that it can’t find "/root/path/Folder1/Folder1" and "/root/path/Folder1/Folder2".

If I put watch = ["../Folder1", "../Folder2"] however it seems to be working just fine.

[Canop]

Can you please build a project exhibiting this problem (it doesn't have to have many files) ?

[vincentberthier]

Uh, there are a lot of things, and it’s a work project, so not something I can share like that. I can give you the logs and the configuration though, and it’s…well, even weirder that I thought in fact.

With crates A, B and C, if I put watch = [A, B, C], it seems that it will

• first look for A/A, A/B, A/C,
• then look for B/A, B/B, B/C Might be for the different jobs though? It’s weird.

bacon.log bacon.txt

[dalance]

I found the same issue. My repository is https://github.com/veryl-lang/veryl .

In this repo, I want to add testcases/veryl directory to watch list. So I wrote like below at first, but it didn't work fine.

watch = ["testcases/veryl"]

Instead of it, I wrote like below, it worked fine.

watch = ["../../testcases/veryl"]

This is because the root path of the watch list is the path of each crate in the workspace. In my workspace, there are the following crates:

crates/analyzer
crates/emitter
crates/formatter
crates/languageserver
crates/mdbook
crates/metadata
crates/parser
crates/path
crates/sourcemap
crates/std
crates/tests
crates/veryl

So the watch entry is expanded like below:

crates/analyzer/../../testcases/veryl
crates/emitter/../../testcases/veryl
crates/formatter/../../testcases/veryl
crates/languageserver/../../testcases/veryl
crates/mdbook/../../testcases/veryl
crates/metadata/../../testcases/veryl
crates/parser/../../testcases/veryl
crates/path/../../testcases/veryl
crates/sourcemap/../../testcases/veryl
crates/std/../../testcases/veryl
crates/tests/../../testcases/veryl
crates/veryl/../../testcases/veryl

It works fine, but I think bit confusable because the root path of watch entry is not documented. And I worry whether the same directory is added repeatedly is problem. In workspace, it may be better that the root path of watch entry is the workspace root.