Re: Bug#527205: ITP: inotifyx -- Simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API
+ Ritesh Raj Sarraf (Wed, 06 May 2009 12:23:06 +0530):
Hello!, and thanks for your interest in packaging new software for
Debian.
> * Package name : inotifyx
> Version : 0.1.0
> Upstream Author : Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
> * URL : http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/inotifyx/
> * License : MIT/X
> Programming Lang: C, Python
> Description : Simple Python binding to the Linux inotify file system event monitoring API
> inotifyx is a Python extension providing access to the Linux inotify
> file system event notification API. It is primarily written in C but has
> some Python window dressing.
Could you please include in the description a few lines on why would one
want to use inotifyx instead of the already available pyinotify bindings?
By reading the upstream homepage, it already mentions:
| Reasons you might choose inotifyx over pyinotify:
|
| * inotifyx is a C extension and does not use ctypes, making it faster
| and less prone to subtle breakage due to changes in the inotify API.
|
| * inotifyx is a much thinner wrapper around inotify. pyinotify is more
| complicated. It does provide features that inotifyx does not, but many
| of them are not needed by most applications.
|
| * The API provided by pyinotify seems to change in incompatible ways on
| a fairly regular basis and with little justification. inotifyx has a
| simple API that will change rarely, if ever.
Maybe that's a bit too long for the description, but it should be easy
enough to summarize those arguments for the long description.
By the way, do you have preview packages available already?
Cheers,
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