On 9/29/06, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
This is a bit of misinformation. gamin works fine on my nfs home directory. Also gnome-menus _could_ use gnome-vfs to do its monitoring, but Mark did not want to add such a heavy dependency just for file monitoring. And besides, gnome-vfs and gamin use identical inotify code, so it is hard to see what would be improved by using one over the other... Matthias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
