History ======= [Alan Dipert][alan] wrote the first implementation of `fswatch` in 2009. This version ran exclusively on OS X and relied on the [FSEvents][fse] API to get change events from the OS. At the end of 2013 [Enrico M. Crisostomo][enrico] wrote `fsw` aiming at providing not only a drop-in replacement for `fswatch`, but a common front-end from multiple file system change events APIs, including: * OS X FSEvents. * *BSD kqueue. * Linux inotify. In April 2014 Alan and Enrico, in the best interest of users of either `fswatch` and `fsw`, agreed on merging the two programs together. At the same time, Enrico was taking over `fswatch` as a maintainer. As a consequence, development of `fswatch` will continue on its [main repository][fswatchrepo] while the `fsw` repository will likely be frozen and its documentation updated to redirect users to `fswatch`. [alan]: http://alandipert.tumblr.com [fse]: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/Reference/reference.html [enrico]: http://thegreyblog.blogspot.com [fswatchrepo]: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch ----- Copyright (C) 2014 Enrico M. Crisostomo This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .