[oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread AJ ONeal
python-inotify, (bearing no relation to pyinotify or python-inotifyx, btw) is broken. it compiles, but it doesn't work. Can someone else confirm? test case: https://github.com/coolaj86/python-examples/tree/master/inotify After a few events it just freezes. I've also informed the author. General

Re: [oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread Philip Balister
On 12/19/2010 05:18 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: python-inotify, (bearing no relation to pyinotify or python-inotifyx, btw) is broken. it compiles, but it doesn't work. Can someone else confirm? test case: https://github.com/coolaj86/python-examples/tree/master/inotify After a few events it just freezes

Re: [oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread AJ ONeal
Maybe silly, maybe not. It takes just about as much time to learn a library's internals as it does to write one. Case and point: python-inotify. If you google around for "python-inotify" you get the mainstream module that Ubuntu and the rest of the Linux crowd are using. This version of the same

Re: [oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread AJ ONeal
I trailed off there... Both points are valid: Yours - better to fix what's broken then to create something new that adds to the obscurity. Mine - better to delete what's broken and create something new that works. Reality - lot's of broken things everywhere, some of the same name. On Sun, Dec 1

Re: [oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread AJ ONeal
The author just e-mailed me back. He is no longer maintaining the library. I vote that it gets deleted unless whoever submitted it to OE plans to maintain it. It's just going to cause confusion for others like it did for me. And going through all of the work to figure out how to access the docume

Re: [oe] python-inotify broken

2010-12-19 Thread Khem Raj
On (19/12/10 15:18), AJ ONeal wrote: > python-inotify, (bearing no relation to pyinotify or python-inotifyx, btw) > is broken. > it compiles, but it doesn't work. > > Can someone else confirm? > test case: > https://github.com/coolaj86/python-examples/tree/master/inotify > > After a few events it