guard / listen

The Listen gem listens to file modifications and notifies you about the changes.
https://rubygems.org/gems/listen
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dependency with gems that are not required #553

Open tamiradari opened 2 years ago

tamiradari commented 2 years ago

Both rb-fsevent and rb-inotify are in the dependency in listen-3.7.1.gemspec. But:

ColinDKelley commented 1 year ago

@tamiradari These are good points.

Could you possibly submit a PR that makes these dependencies conditional?

uvlad7 commented 3 weeks ago

It's easy to make them conditional, but you'll need to publish separate OS-specific versions of the gem

ColinDKelley commented 1 week ago

If anyone is inspired to make a PR that breaks out to OS-specific versions, please do!