Re: [Tracker] the story on NFS

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 17/11/13 14:57, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 16:36 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote:
> > As a way to improve applications which (for the most part) used local
> > discs, Gamin was developed as a simpler replacement to FAM which
> > supported the fancy new local filesystem monitoring APIs on linux, and
> > dropped the (complex and thought to be mostly unused) network support.
> > We all loved it, because it meant we didn't need to poll our hard drives
> > any more.
> >
> > Most modern distributions don't even bother packaging FAM, as far as I
> > know; it hasn't had a release since 2003. I would love to see a modern
> > version of FAM come back some day to solve the NFS case...
>
> Indeed!
>
> But given the lack of real FAM on practically all distributions, (at
> least until a suitable replacement comes around) would it suck for the
> tracker software project to have a copy of the latest fam source in it's
> tree and build it into tracker directly rather than having to rely on it
> being present in a distro?

We've included projects in the source tree before and still do, e.g. 
gvdb, libstemmer, etc.

We prefer not to. But if there is no packaging and the project is not 
dead (i.e. has good activity), we're happy to include source if it helps 
people using the project.

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Regards,
Martyn

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