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Port details
py-inotify-simple Simple wrapper around inotify
2.0.1_2 devel on this many watch lists=2 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 1.3.5_2Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: grembo@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2024-02-18 11:48:04
Last Update: 2025-09-09 18:57:30
Commit Hash: 952d835
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Also Listed In: python
License: BSD2CLAUSE
WWW:
https://github.com/chrisjbillington/inotify_simple
Description:
inotify_simple is a simple Python wrapper around inotify. No fancy bells and whistles, just a literal wrapper with ctypes.
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pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
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Dependency lines:
  • ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}inotify-simple>0:devel/py-inotify-simple@${PY_FLAVOR}
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/py-inotify-simple/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/py-inotify-simple
  • pkg install py311-inotify-simple
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py311-inotify-simple listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
PKGNAME: py311-inotify-simple
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • py311: py311-inotify-simple
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1757006525 SHA256 (inotify_simple-2.0.1.tar.gz) = f010bbbd8283bd71a9f4eb2de94765804ede24bd47320b0e6ef4136e541cdc2c SIZE (inotify_simple-2.0.1.tar.gz) = 7101

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. py311-setuptools>=0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
  2. py311-wheel>=0 : devel/py-wheel@py311
  3. python3.11 : lang/python311
  4. py311-build>=0 : devel/py-build@py311
  5. py311-installer>=0 : devel/py-installer@py311
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Library dependencies:
  1. libinotify.so : devel/libinotify
This port is required by:
for Run
  1. devel/py-inotifyrecursive

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
devel_py-inotify-simple
USES:
python
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Number of commits found: 6

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
2.0.1_2
09 Sep 2025 18:57:30
commit hash: 952d835ab36fab17313bf24a98b1def47e391698commit hash: 952d835ab36fab17313bf24a98b1def47e391698commit hash: 952d835ab36fab17313bf24a98b1def47e391698commit hash: 952d835ab36fab17313bf24a98b1def47e391698 files touched by this commit
Michael Gmelin (grembo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/py-inotify-simple: Fix incomplete patch
2.0.1_1
09 Sep 2025 09:12:09
commit hash: 0c83dc7d34b681d33665b23329a3be075f0e2ae7commit hash: 0c83dc7d34b681d33665b23329a3be075f0e2ae7commit hash: 0c83dc7d34b681d33665b23329a3be075f0e2ae7commit hash: 0c83dc7d34b681d33665b23329a3be075f0e2ae7 files touched by this commit
Michael Gmelin (grembo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/py-inotify-simple: Fix polling
2.0.1
04 Sep 2025 19:35:27
commit hash: fc211449cd6985d52193fe329ca8ec8750c1cdc5commit hash: fc211449cd6985d52193fe329ca8ec8750c1cdc5commit hash: fc211449cd6985d52193fe329ca8ec8750c1cdc5commit hash: fc211449cd6985d52193fe329ca8ec8750c1cdc5 files touched by this commit
Michael Gmelin (grembo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/py-inotify-simple: Update to 2.0.1
1.3.5_2
08 Mar 2025 04:05:21
commit hash: 06a08e69f3acb846ad8252945f53c3a2d211e303commit hash: 06a08e69f3acb846ad8252945f53c3a2d211e303commit hash: 06a08e69f3acb846ad8252945f53c3a2d211e303commit hash: 06a08e69f3acb846ad8252945f53c3a2d211e303 files touched by this commit
Charlie Li (vishwin) search for other commits by this committer
python: bump all USE_PYTHON=distutils consumers after RUN_DEPENDS removal

Any missed ports, feel free to bump.

Any ports that need setuptools at runtime can have the devel/py-setuptools
manually added back to RUN_DEPENDS, but understand that this practice
is deprecated; see CHANGES for details.
1.3.5_1
19 Feb 2024 19:10:25
commit hash: ab060a910e251cfbc4a7f709e26e8852a8bd4bdecommit hash: ab060a910e251cfbc4a7f709e26e8852a8bd4bdecommit hash: ab060a910e251cfbc4a7f709e26e8852a8bd4bdecommit hash: ab060a910e251cfbc4a7f709e26e8852a8bd4bde files touched by this commit
Michael Gmelin (grembo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/py-inotify-simple: Bugfix
1.3.5
18 Feb 2024 11:45:31
commit hash: 70d529b486a8e1a6e9ce3222d36cdebf808d3ca1commit hash: 70d529b486a8e1a6e9ce3222d36cdebf808d3ca1commit hash: 70d529b486a8e1a6e9ce3222d36cdebf808d3ca1commit hash: 70d529b486a8e1a6e9ce3222d36cdebf808d3ca1 files touched by this commit
Michael Gmelin (grembo) search for other commits by this committer
devel/py-inotify-simple: New port

Simple wrapper around inotify

Number of commits found: 6