Re: fam vs. gamin

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

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?

Doesn't look good to me: gamin can only do local files, not remote files
on NFS. Gamin is only useful for inotify and kqueue. I don't know kqueue
is implemented in gnome-vfs, but at least inotify works perfect on linux
with gnome-vfs. Fam is only used for NFS shares and is completely
optional AFAIK.
One exception is gnome-menus, which needs fam/gamin to monitor files.
Most distributions have patched up that thing to use either inotify or
gnome-vfs, so IMHO the dependency isn't right on that page and should
list a choice between fam or gamin, but certainly not only gamin.