Re: [Nautilus-list] Make fam a real dependency

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 10:35  AM, Joe Shaw wrote:

> We would do it for distributions that support it. Since Havoc and Alex
> say they'll do it for Red Hat, our RH packages would probably support
> it, yeah.

That's a great!

Just a small related editorial comment. The polling features of FAM are 
not system-specific the way the file monitoring part is. If FAM didn't 
support polling, we probably would have included polling in Nautilus 
itself. So even on systems where the distribution doesn't provide a FAM 
package, it would be best for users of Ximian GNOME if a FAM package was 
provided. The availability of a FAM package built on top of real file 
monitoring is a separate issue, and can make things even better, but 
Nautilus is *way* better with even a polling-only version of FAM than it 
is if compiled without FAM support.

Not that I think this will necessarily convince you, but it's worth 
considering the fact that we are using FAM even for the simple polling, 
and there's a benefit to having it around on *any* system. FAM without 
IMON works on pretty-much any Unix system, right?

I hope I won't regret my decision to use FAM instead of writing polling 
code inside Nautilus itself.

    -- Darin