From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T06:53:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] directory_watcher 0.1.1

On 11/13/06, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What were the reasons for creating this, as opposed to an extension of Ara's
> dirwatch? http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/
>

dirwatch is very awesome code. It is a great ruby application that
"manages an sqlite database that mirrors the state of a directory and
then triggers user definable event handlers for certain filesystem
activities such file creation, modification, deletion, etc." It is
meant to be used as its own application.

directory_watcher, on the other hand, is a single ruby class that
sends event objects to other ruby classes when the contents of a
directory change. It is meant to be used within ruby scripts that need
to know about file events.

In summary
dirwatch --> awesome ruby application
directory_watcher --> awesome ruby class

Blessings,
TwP