grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[MRAB]

John Bokma wrote:
> Thomas Jollans <thomas at jollans.com> writes:
> 
>> On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote:
>>> On Jul 10, 10:59 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>>> <luke.leigh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser
>>>>
>>>> $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4")
>>>>
>>>> conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out.
>>>> entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined.  always
>>>> a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com
>>>> with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as
>>>> grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written
>>>> in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled].
>>>>
>>>> l.
>>> Congratulations on this effort Luke. However you know what project i
>>> would really like to see the community get around? ...dramatic pause
>>> here... a cross platform Python file browser! Yes i know there are
>>> tons of them out there already and Python is a bit slow, but i think
>>> it would be useful to many peoples.
>> Cross platform file manager. Hmm. Does "cross platform" involve UNIX and
>> something that isn't UNIX, say, Windows?
>> Erm, no. No, no, no. It won't work. Well, it would work, but it wouldn't
>> be any good. The UNIX and Windows concepts of "file system" are similar
>> enough for most programs not to care too much, but for something like a
>> file manager, that works intimately with the file system, trying to
>> support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea.
> 
> Can't think of why not. Of course not all operations are shared by each
> OS, but /I/ know that I can't do chmod on Windows. But it doesn't mean
> that on Windows I can't make a file only readable by me. Just give me
> the Windows security options on Windows, and chmod on *nix and I would
> be very happy.
 >
On Windows the root folders of the different drives could be treated as
subfolders of a 'root' folder.

> Especially if all can be done via a context menu a la RISC OS.
> 
Ah, RISC OS!

<rant>
I'd heard how user-friendly the Mac was, but when I was first introduced
to the Mac (circa MacOS 8) I was very surprised that even it still used
old-fashioned Open and Save dialog boxes with their own little file
browsers like on a Windows PC instead of drag-and-drop like I'd become
used to on RISC OS. And that menu bar not even at the top of the window
but at the top of the _screen_! And the way that bringing one Finder
window to the front brought _all_ the Finder windows in front of the
other windows! I was distinctly underwhelmed... :-(
</rant>