How to install pyinotify in Windows to enable inotify?

[THPubs]

How can we install pyinotify in windows and enable inotify? Is there any installer? Is it possible to package it along with syncthing gtk?

PS : Sorry if im opening too many issues :-)

[kozec]

inotify is Linux-specific thing, not supported on Windows.

[THPubs]

@kozec Ah ok. Any alternatives for Windows?

[Zillode]

@THPubs you can run syncthing-inotify
@kozec Are you open to embed syncthing-inotify in syncthing-gtk? I'd like to have it tested by more ppl before proposing a merge with the main syncthing project.

[kozec]

@kozec Are you open to embed syncthing-inotify in syncthing-gtk? I'd like to have it tested by more ppl before proposing a merge with the main syncthing project.

Sounds like good idea; is it possible to configure it to watch only some directories?

edit:
I see, -folders parameter. I'll check how it will do next time I'll be on Windows. Thanks for suggestion.

[Zillode]

The -home parameter might also be of interest. Just link it to the config dir and it will sniff the api key (which is all st-inotify needs)

edit: will tag the current master as v0.6.2 as soon as https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-inotify/issues/58 gives a 👍

[kozec]

@Zillode Just to check, will 32bit syncthing-inotify have any problem with 64bit syncthing daemon? ST-GTK has only 32bit installer for Windows, so bundling 64bit syncthing-inotify exacutable would be... Not exactly problem, but more trouble than I think is necessary.

[Zillode]

I never tried it but all communication is based on http requests, so I think it'll work.
If you only bundle a 64bit syncthing you could also opt for the 64bit inotify. If you bundle dynamically, feel free use the 32bit.

[kozec]

@Zillode Ok, it pretty-much works, but I have problem with capturing syncthing-inotify output. Is it doing anything that may prevent reading from its stdout, when it's started as background process?

[Zillode]

Not that I know of, all output is written to os.Stdout. The exit codes are documented in the FAQ: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-inotify/wiki/FAQ

[kozec]

@THPubs So, ST-GTK now includes syncthing-inotify v0.6.3 in latest release. It would be great if you could give it a test and tell me if it works on more than single (my own :) machine.

[THPubs]

@kozec I think it works! :-) Didn't do too many tests... Just added one file and deleted one file... Both worked :-) Thanks for the quick fix!