I *did* try using the plugins package in the past, but ran into two problems:
1) Couldn't get it installed on Windows, which (for better or worse)
is a supported platform for Yesod development.
2) The whole thing crashed when trying to load the app.
Point 2 might be solved by our switch to Dynamic, and maybe the
Windows issue can also be fixed somehow. But my experience so far
would definitely categorize direct-plugins as the simpler of the two.
Michael
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Matias Eyzaguirre
I'm curious as to why direct-plugins was used instead of hs-plugins like yi uses. I have not actually had any experience with either, but from what I can tell it seems like hs-plugins is a bit simpler to work with, and it doesn't seem to require that packages be installed. perhaps that would be an easier route?
But again, as I said I have never actually used either of the two packages, so my opinion is based entirely on hearsay and not on actual hands on experience.
On Apr 23, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
Wow, this does seem to be a problem. It appears that loadDynamic never loads a new version of the app. I can think of two approaches for fixing this:
* Start the web server as a separate process, and kill/restart that process each time a compile is successful (easier route). * Ditch direct-plugins and write some code that loads the application directly from the dist folder, hopefully avoiding this caching in the process.
The first approach is probably easier to hack together, but the second is better as a long-term strategy, since we want to avoid the need to install apps anyway. I have no experience with dynamic code loading besides the direct-plugins and plugins packages, so if anyone has recommendations, I'm happy to hear them.
Michael