[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#779301: RFP: node-gaze -- Globbing fs.watch wrapper

[Bas Couwenberg]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : node-gaze
  Version         : 0.5.1
  Upstream Author : Kyle Robinson Young <kyle at dontkry.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/shama/gaze
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: JavaScript
  Description     : Globbing fs.watch wrapper

gaze is a globbing fs.watch wrapper built from the best parts of other fine
watch libs.

Features:

 * Consistent events on OSX, Linux and Windows
 * Very fast start up and response time
 * High test coverage and well vetted
 * Uses native OS events but falls back to stat polling
 * Option to force stat polling with special file systems such as networked
 * Downloaded over 1M times a month
 * Used by Grunt, gulp, Tower and many others


node-graze is required for closure-util (#774562) which in turn is required
for OpenLayers 3 (#774561).