Re: fam vs. gamin

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang gmail com>]

On 10/2/06, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 10:49 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > There was once a complaint that gamin was unmaintained and buggy such
> > that fam was then recommended, yet I see gamin instead of fam @
> > http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies.
> > What am I missing?
>
> I'm not sure where you got this idea. I can definately tell you that fam
> is much worse maintained than gamin. Its a code drop from SGI from many
> years ago that has recieved little maintenance since then.

It's a recommended dependency of nautilus in Debian Etch. Removing
gamin fixed this bug for me:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373814

> Now, gamin isn't perfectly maintained either, but with the last bunch of
> fixes (in cvs, don't think there has been a release with them yet) it
> seems to work fine.

Good to know...