[Pkg-sass-devel] Bug#953048: Bug#953048: ruby-sass: sass --watch does not work

[Werner Joss]

Am Mittwoch, 4. März 2020, 17:48:05 CET schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> I deliberately wrote "should" because it is outside Debian: I don't 
> really know if and how it might maybe perhaps work and if so then for 
> how long before it maybe perhaps crashes in weird ways.
> 
> I know about Debian, and I chose to avoid that feature because it became 
> difficult to package for Debian and I considered it a low-priority 
> feature (read: I found it more important to ship sass wihtout that 
> feature than to not ship sass at all with Debian).
> 
> Beware: Ruby-based sass is dead upstream.  I recommend to use sassc 
> instead.
> 
> For the --watch feature, I suggest you consider generic tools like 
> fswatch inotify-tools iwatch

Ok, Jonas,
That makes things a little more clear for me - may I propose to just remove the --watch option
When it does not work anyway ?
Would be better than a crash, IMHO ;)
And yes, I already thought about writing a script using sass or sassc together with some filesystem-watch tool,
as you proposed, but fortunately there is also pyscss: https://pythonhosted.org/scss/#python-scss
Which has this watch feature and gets the job done.

Kind regards
Werner