[oe] python-inotify broken

[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.
>
> I've also informed the author.
>
> Generally speaking, is there much point in leaving a library in OE that
> gives false
> hope and then shatters dreams and crushes aspirations?

Now you know it is broken, you should fix. Better for people to have a 
place to start and not reinvent the wheel.

Deleting something just because it does not work is silly. Better to 
figure out why and fix it.

Philip