[maybe-ITP] gamin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Jan 25 23:30:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:07:36AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>A friend and a colleague of mine would need a working file alteration
>monitor on Windows.
>It seems that gamin[1] compiles fairly well with only a few patches.
>Being it part of Gnome I was wondering if (and why) it wasn't already
>packaged by the cygwin-gnome project, else we could think about
>proposing to mantain the package (as we would need to produce it anyway,
>in order to easily install it).
>Any comment? Do you think it would be a generally useful package?

This really works on cygwin?  I would have thought that there were operating
system hooks needed.  Or does it just poll files?

cgf



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