gEDA-user: FWD: Re: gEDA-dev: pyinotify and mac osx

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[[ I'm forwarding this message that arrived to geda-dev (which was turned
   off last week) to geda-user. -Ales ]]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 21:50 -0500, Peter Wiley-Cordone wrote:
> I've got geda running and building on macosx, and I'm trying to get  
> geda manager going. It looks like I've got it down to needing  
> pyinotify, and when I try to install that, I get:
> 
> Exception: inotify not available under macosx-10.5-i386
> 
> The pyinotify page also says something about it relying on a linux  
> kernel feature.  Does anyone know if there is a way to get pyinotify  
> running in mac osx?

You're probably out of luck, since it is indeed a wrapper onto a Linux
kernel API.

geda-manager needs porting to the more portable libgamin / libfam.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
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