FS#6179 - [fam] Use Gamin instead of FAM
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Opened by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Sunday, 07 January 2007, 09:00 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:51 GMT
Opened by Matt S (nonfatmatt) - Sunday, 07 January 2007, 09:00 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:51 GMT
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Would like to see gamin -
http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
- as an option instead of FAM, because it provides the same
functionality but does not require portmap.
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Closed by Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:51 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:51 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Also Gentoo recommends Gamin http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/faq.xml
Are the reasons for denying the request still valid? Fam seems to be unmaintained, dead and patched to death.
If i am wrong, feel free to close this again.
"gamin development is dead and doesn't work nice with NFS shares without polling all the time, while fam uses a remote instance of fam to do that. For the rest, many apps use inotify directly, which removes the need for a fam->inotify wrapper like gamin is."
Its pretty obvious that fam isnt maintained. gamin probably is, so the only reason to have fam instead of gamin is NFS. i dont know if thats valid today.
FWIW fedora seems to ship only gamin
I see no point in removing software just because it has not had a release. If fam was quite buggy, that might be a different issue... I see no current bug reports for it.
Also, gamin is in [community].