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Requirement: Linux OS? #7

Closed dongbohu closed 3 years ago

dongbohu commented 3 years ago

I tried to install this project on macOS but failed with this error:

    inotify is not available on macosx-10.9-x86_64
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.

After digging deeper, I realized that this project requires biothings.api, whose hub component then requires pyinotify: https://github.com/biothings/biothings.api/blob/faa268acdb68718ff444f53aa640051fe58366a2/setup.py#L69

And according to the wiki page of pyinotify: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify/wiki/Install Linux kernel with inotify ≥ 2.6.13 is required. Should we include this dependency in our RADME.md file (and probably in README.md of biothings.api repo too)?

zcqian commented 3 years ago

We have implemented a workaround so inotify is no longer a necessity. By default we still require it on Linux, but not anymore on other platforms.