KDE/kdevelop/buildtools/managers/custommake

[Matt Rogers]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 14:35, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 30.05.07 19:11:50, Dukju Ahn wrote:
> > SVN commit 669909 by dukjuahn:
> >
> > Implementing Directory watcher in custom make manager.
>
> Good that you used QFileSystemWatcher and not KDirWatch (the latter one
> has a couple of shortcomings). The stuff you do inside the directory
> changed slot should probably go into the filesystem watcher class and
> then the whole class should go somewhere into lib/ so other project
> managers can benefit from that (QMake will need this too).
>
> KDirWatch still exists, but I'm actually not even sure if it works on
> windows (where QFileSystemWatcher works for sure), it as a bit more
> fine-grained signals, unfortunately a couple of the features are not
> implemented. (This is mainly for Matt to explain why QFileSystemWatcher
> is the better alternative)
>

I don't know why it's better. :P
-- 
Matt