Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.13 released

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 29/12/09 17:23, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 10:56 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> > Does it work with OS without libinotify?
> >
> > I  remember that tracker 0.6.9x works with Solaris  that does not have
> > libinotify, but gio instead.
> > it seems that it is broken in 0.7.x
>
> I don't know why libinotify was made non-optional some time ago. I
> suspect that the gio backend was broken and nobody was maintaining it.
> If you are willing to maintain the gio file monitoring backend, we'd
> certainly be happy to take patches to resurrect it.

Hi,

Well libinotify was imported into src/libinotify. We used to make it 
optional vs. gio, but then gio wasn't good enough (no MOVE event 
support) so we had to make libinotify the ONLY option since MOVE support 
is quite important.

We currently have a patch to support MOVE events without breaking the 
current API/etc in GIO, but it has been left to rot:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547890

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Regards,
Martyn