Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.13 released

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 31/12/09 10:32, Martyn Russell wrote:
> On 29/12/09 17:23, JÃrg Billeter wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 10:56 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> > > Does it work with OS without libinotify?
> > >
> > > I remember that tracker 0.6.9x works with Solaris that does not have
> > > libinotify, but gio instead.
> > > it seems that it is broken in 0.7.x
> >
> > I don't know why libinotify was made non-optional some time ago. I
> > suspect that the gio backend was broken and nobody was maintaining it.
> > If you are willing to maintain the gio file monitoring backend, we'd
> > certainly be happy to take patches to resurrect it.
>
> Hi,
>
> Well libinotify was imported into src/libinotify. We used to make it
> optional vs. gio, but then gio wasn't good enough (no MOVE event
> support) so we had to make libinotify the ONLY option since MOVE support
> is quite important.

Just to clarify, when I say "MOVE support", the move event was already 
supported, but the _OTHER_ GFile was not given IIRC. This makes the move 
event quite useless for us without the patch in Bugzilla.

--
Regards,
Martyn