Re: Bug#706458: ITP: inotify-hookable -- blocking command-line interface to inotify

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:58:58PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : inotify-hookable
>   Version         : 0.7
>   Upstream Author : ???var Arnfj???r??? Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org>
> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Inotify-Hookable/
> * License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
>   Programming Lang: FIXME
>   Description     : blocking command-line interface to inotify
> 
> inotify-hookable is a program that monitor files with Linux inotify. This
> program accepts options to specify the files to be monitored and the command
> to run when a file has changed (based in kernel inotify)
> 
> Example:
> 
>  inotify-hookable -f foo.c -c 'gcc -o foo foo.c'

How is that better than the existing inotify shell tools? What do they
lack and why not improve them instead of writing a new one?

MfG
	Goswin