fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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? ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Jan de Groot
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

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
2006-09-29 klockan 11:45 skrev Jan de Groot: 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,

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Matthias Clasen
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 @

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: 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

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Jamie McCracken
Matthias Clasen wrote: 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 @

Re: fam vs. gamin

2006-09-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 16:59 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: 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