[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#375631: Gamin going away
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?
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.
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?
Upstream has previously said:
I strongly recommend Gamin, because it offers several advantages
over FAM:
* Can utilize various modern operating system services like
kevent and inotify.
* Allows its client to disable the sending of FAMExists
events, which aren't used in Thunar (nor in any other
FAM-based software I've seen recently) and produce only
unnecessary noise.
* Runs as user process rather than system service.
So I'm not entirely convinced about reverting back to dnotify and a
system service instead of gamin.
Simon.
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