Dirty files

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 19.05.10 19:49:26, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 19:41:53 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > It will investigate the inotify-being-turned off soonish. I'd be willing
> > > to  write a little interface for it if KDirWatch doesn't satisfy our
> > > needs, it's a very simple (C) interface to use.
> > 
> > Not an option, inotify is only available on a single platform, thats
> > linux.
> 
> That makes no sense. It is not an essential feature, why not use it where 
> available? I am all for cross-platform, but not to the point of intentionally 
> crippling one platform just to achieve parity.

It actually makes all sense. There's a working cross-platform solution
to watch files/dirs. Its called KDirWatch, there's no sense in
implementing a new solution that only works in 1/4th of the cases and
having to maintain that.

Andreas

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