From kde-devel Fri Sep 19 04:29:12 2008 From: James Richard Tyrer Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:29:12 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE-3.5.10+ FAM, INotify, DNotify Message-Id: <48D32A98.208 () acm ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=122179864924540 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 17.09.08 15:39:31, James Richard Tyrer wrote: >> What is the status of file alteration monitoring in the KDE-3.5 >> BRANCH? >> >> The last release of FAM was 2.7.0 in +/- 11/2003. I obtained a >> DNotify patch from a link at Linux From Scratch: >> >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/fam-2.7.0-dnotify-1.patch >> >> >> >> After 6.1, BLFS replaced it with Gamin. >> >> I find that FAM will still compile with only minor tweaks to the >> Includes. > > Gamin is a drop-in replacement for FAM, Yes, I have read that. However, Gamin dox say that it is only a subset of FAM. > so it doesn't matter wether you build kdelibs against fam or gamin, > it'll still work when you replace it with the other one. I'm not sure > though what distro's build against by default, but at least in > debian I still have the option of installing either fam or gamin. > Perhaps we need to update: http://www.kde.org/info/requirements/3.5.php I am currently using FAM and have installed Gamin only for GNOME. Strigi says that it prefers Gamin, so I tell it to look in my GNOME directory. It appears that I should switch to Gamin for KDE as well. I also note that I haven't seen any recent releases to Gamin (0.1.9 is 27-Jul-2007). While FAM seems to be no longer being maintained, it stopped with a mature release (2.7). Wonder what he future is going to be. Can we use INotify in the Kernel directly on Linux and what about other OSes. -- JRT >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<