embedded_watcher doesn't work for crates outside of the main crate directory

[ricky26]

Bevy version

v0.14.1

What you did

• Added a shader asset with embedded_asset!(app, "shaders/my_shader.wgsl");.
• Enabled the bevy/asset_processing & bevy/embedded_watcher features.
• Boot game.
• Edited shader.

What went wrong

No reload is detected, but changes are taken into account when restarting (& building).

Additional information

It looks like this is caused by EmbeddedWatcher only watching the asset root directory (in my example below, crates/main/). In practice it should probably watch the workspace root and ideally be independently overridable without having to move assets/.

For completeness my project layout looks something like this:

crates/
  main/
    src/
    assets/
    Cargo.toml
  my_lib/
    src/
      shaders/
        my_shader.wgsl
    Cargo.toml
Cargo.toml

[SludgePhD]

I think this is the same as #10575

[ricky26]

Oh, you might well be right - I don't know why but I thought the embedded watcher wasn't that old, so I hadn't looked that far back when looking for dupes.

[BD103]

If that's the case, I'm going to close this as a duplicate.