On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such > that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @ > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies. > What am I missing?
Doesn't look good to me: gamin can only do local files, not remote files on NFS. Gamin is only useful for inotify and kqueue. I don't know kqueue is implemented in gnome-vfs, but at least inotify works perfect on linux with gnome-vfs. Fam is only used for NFS shares and is completely optional AFAIK. One exception is gnome-menus, which needs fam/gamin to monitor files. Most distributions have patched up that thing to use either inotify or gnome-vfs, so IMHO the dependency isn't right on that page and should list a choice between fam or gamin, but certainly not only gamin. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
