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From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inotify ffi
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:47:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761elpiqr.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83389pmqb8.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> But inotify is practically a single-OS solution.  How does it make
> sense for Guile to support file notifications only on one platform?
> That effectively limits packages that use Guile as an extension
> language to that single platform.

From what I could see, this is a third-party library, not one intended
for Guile core.  If such support were to be added to Guile core, I would
agree that it should be cross-platform.

I'm interested in file notifications for a project of mine, but I'm not
sure I would want to introduce glib as a dependency if I'm only using
that one feature.

-- 
David Thompson
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11 17:55 inotify ffi Chaos Eternal
2014-11-11 17:59 ` Chaos Eternal
2014-11-11 19:10   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-11-11 20:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 20:05     ` David Thompson
2014-11-11 20:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-11 20:47         ` David Thompson [this message]

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