[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#375631: Gamin going away
Le mardi 27 juin 2006 ? 11:32 +0100, Simon Huggins a ?crit :
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 05:19:22PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > The GNOME team is willing to give away maintainership of the gamin
> > package. The GNOME VFS library now has builtin inotify support, making
> > gamin useless on a GNOME desktop. Furthermore, it has some nasty bugs
> > and is unmaintained upstream.
>
> Does the GNOME VFS library having inotify support mean FAM has this now?
No, it means GNOME applications don't have to use a monitoring daemon at
all.
> What are the nasty bugs and where is the note that it is unmaintained
> upstream? I couldn't see anything on Daniel Veillard's webpages about
> it.
There hasn't been any upstream release recently, while gamin is known to
break horribly and randomly in many situations. Most of these bugs are
not reported to gamin but are similar to #338438 or #375162 :
applications lose monitoring capabilities and/or the gam_server process
runs wild.
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:26:55AM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote:
> > Since gamin is unmaintained, while fam is in active development, is it
> > possible to make thunar depend on fam rather than gamin?
Fam is not in "active development". It's just that it is stable.
> I strongly recommend Gamin, because it offers several advantages
> over FAM:
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> So I'm not entirely convinced about reverting back to dnotify and a
> system service instead of gamin.
If thunar doesn't start using Gnome-VFS for inotify support, it should
indeed not rely directly on FAM. If you don't want to move this way, I
guess your only option is to take over maintainership of gamin and find
how to fix its bugs.
Cheers,
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