Porting Catfish and Autokey to FreeBSD

[Olivier Duchateau]

On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:43:56 -0600
Mark Felder <feld at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, at 13:28, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > PeerCorps Trust Fund <ipc at peercorpstrust.org> writes:
> > 
> > > We are a group of educators currently looking for someone capable of porting the open source applications Catfish and Autokey to FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > Catfish - http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php/catfish/
> > >
> > > Autokey - https://github.com/guoci/autokey-py3
> > 
> > Those look like straightforward ports, at least for anyone who has dealt
> > with python3 and gtk3.
> >
> 
> I whipped up a port for autokey which was easy because it's hosted on
> pypi and then I started filling out the proper dependencies and ran into
> python-pyinotify. I have a feeling this will cause the program to break
> in some situations because we don't have inotify on FreeBSD.

Perhaps, we can replace inotify by select module [1]. It supports kqueue/kevent. 

[1] https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/select.html

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