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Re: [maybe-ITP] gamin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:30:34 -0500
- Subject: Re: [maybe-ITP] gamin
- References: <43D804B8.5010707@lapo.it>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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