Re: GWorkspace future

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-02-04 14:35:18 +0200 Larry Cow <larrycow@free.fr> wrote:

> Sheldon Gill <sheldon@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> > This is basically fam integration. Do we need a separate daemon to wrap it?

fswatcher has nothing to do with fam. And there is no linux-specific code in 
GWorkspace.
GWorkspace and fswatcher run on OS X, too. GWorkspace could be considered 
"ported" to OS X since about a year if Apple would had not destroyed the 
NSWorkspace class. (leaving the old documentation, moreover!)

> The problem is that fam is Linux-only, IIRC. At least, it is
> Unix-only. If we really want GNUstep to be platform-independent, we
> should at least provide some portable framework to deal with file
> alteration. And it would be this framework's responsibility to dialog
> with whatever exists on the platform to monitor files (famd on linux,
> win32 APIs on windows, some homemade daemon elsewhere).
>
> My .2 eurocents.