fsnotify does not provide watcher.Events for aix

[szydell]

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Problem Description

It is not possible to compile viper for the aix/ppc64. Fsnotify is not fully supporting aix.

Proposed Solution

Since 1.5.2 fsnotify is compiling on AIX. Unfortunately Viper is still not.
For this platform fsnotify does not provide watcher.Events
watcher.Events undefined (type *fsnotify.Watcher has no field or method Events)
Details: fsnotify/fsnotify@bfa0135

Could you please disable filewatching for this platform? i.e. using //go:build !aix for that part?

Alternatives Considered

There is a PR in fsnotify that theoritically should add file watching for AIX too, but the code is not optimized yet, so it for sure will take a lot of time till released.
fsnotify/fsnotify#326

It took 2y to release a workaround mentioned as a 'Proposed Solution': fsnotify/fsnotify#353

Additional Information

Result can be repreduced using: GOOS='aix' GOARCH='ppc64' go build

Logs:

# github.com/spf13/viper
...\go\pkg\mod\github.com\spf13\viper@v1.12.0\viper.go:457:33: watcher.Events undefined (type *fsnotify.Watcher has no field or method Events)
...\go\pkg\mod\github.com\spf13\viper@v1.12.0\viper.go:484:31: watcher.Errors undefined (type *fsnotify.Watcher has no field or method Errors)

$ go version
go version go1.19 windows/amd64```

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[achuchev]

Compiling viper for aix/ppc64 is very important for me as well. Any chance to have it soon?

[sagikazarmark]

@szydell @achuchev can you please test the disable-watcher-aix branch?

[achuchev]

@sagikazarmark Apologies for the delay. Yes, it is working. Thanks a lot!

[sagikazarmark]

Excellent, thanks for the feedback!