Watchers for everybody

[TrySound]

Hi. I saw issues about chokidar performace and here's my thoughts

• pathwatcher sucks because depends on python. Not everybody has an access to python
• chokidar seems good last half yeah. Didn't see performance problems on windows even with native mode (not polling).

So, maybe gobble could revert temporary replacement and everybody will be happy :)

[IvanSanchez]

Right now pathwatcher is creating a lot of issues in my CI flows, as the runas dependency fails to re-compile every time.

You're not alone in the pathwatcher criticism - there's #108, #115 and #106. According to #92, pathwatcher should be more solid than chokidar, and the project has gone with that so far. I wonder if there's enough reason to go back to chokidar, though.

[sod]

There is also https://github.com/amasad/sane ... e.g. used by jspm :)

[evs-chris]

FWIW I'm super 👍 on getting a fresh version of gobble without pathwatcher out. CI does not like pathwatcher, so we're sticking with an older gobble for now. 😄 It looks like it's already been swapped out in master.

[teehemkay]

Same here.:+1: on removing pathwatcher since it fails to compile on too many enviromments

[Rich-Harris]

Just released 0.12 with all the accumulated changes (on which note – wow! Sorry, I totally dropped the ball, I don't deserve such good open source friends) including switching back to chokidar, to see if things are any better. Still having a bit of trouble getting stuff to build on Node 7, but hopefully it will fix something...

[teehemkay]

Thanks Rich! I'll try 0.12 at work on Monday.