Very satisfying to use [watchedinstall][wi] at work the other day to see exactly what a tricksy meta-package was doing during installation. Now that I [fixed a stupid bug involving dtrace][bug], watchedinstall works a treat for recording exactly what goes where.

Many thanks to [Preston Holmes][ptone] for releasing watchedinstall in the first place.

My goal is to replace the functionality of the fsevents helper application with a [dtrace][dtrace] script that can list filesystem changes. A single python script would be simpler to install and use – you wouldn’t need to install it at all, just run it from the directory you downloaded it to. No effing about with setting PATH environment variables, no worry about compiling a C program for whatever architecture.

Hey Esther!

[wi]: http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/
[bug]: http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/changeset/d97aaae628c3/
[ptone]: http://www.ptone.com/
[dtrace]: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/