That's the simplest way to do it. If you want to get fancy you can use a cleanup handler to diff %INC after requests and log anything new.
- Perrin On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Jonathan Swartz <swa...@pobox.com> wrote: > Incidentally Perrin - how do you come up with the list of vendor (i.e. not > your project's) modules to load in the parent? Do you just load a page, look > at %INC, and then subtract out your personal modules? Do you have to do this > every so often to catch new vendor modules that have snuck in as > dependencies? > > On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jonathan Swartz <swa...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> This is the nicest solution I've seen so far. The only problem I can see >>> is >>> its performance - each potentially-changing module has to be loaded on >>> each >>> request. ** >> >> How long does it take for you? I've run a lot of large mod_perl apps >> this way and never seen it take more than 3 seconds to compile and >> generate a page. Maybe this is only an issue with Moose? Or maybe >> there's some expensive initialization that could be skipped in >> development? >> >> Anyway, another approach would be to set MaxClients to 1 and install >> cleanup handler that kills the current process if it sees that any of >> the watched modules have been changed. Then you don't need a separate >> process. >> >> - Perrin > >