Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Not able to install pyobjc-framework-FSEvents-2.2b1 on my Mac

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 23 Mar, 2009, at 4:58, Vijayendra Bapte wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I want to develop a directory watcher on Mac so that I can get the  
> notification as soon as any file added//modified/deleted from the  
> marked directory. Is there any alternate way detecting File System  
> Events on Tiger?

Not really.  Spotlight uses a private API to look for changes on  
Tiger. It might be possible to emulate the behaviour using kevent/ 
kqueue, although I've never tried doing that.  The other alternative  
is polling for changes.

Ronald

>
> Thanks,
> Vijayendra.
>
>
> On 3/22/09 11:30 PM, "Ronald Oussoren" <ron...@ma...> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 20 Mar, 2009, at 12:59, Vijayendra Bapte wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  I am getting an gcc compilation error while installing pyobjc- 
>>> framework-FSEvents-2.2b1
>>>  on my Mac (OS X 10.4.11, Intel Core Duo 32 bit processor,  
>>> Python2.6.1, gcc: i686-apple-
>>>  darwin8-gcc-4.0.1)
>>>
>>
>> I'll have to find a way to disable this framework wrapper on Tiger  
>> systems, it wraps some API's that aren't available on Tiger systems.
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>>
>