grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[rantingrick]

On Jul 11, 11:31 am, Thomas Jollans <tho... at jollans.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote:

> > 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!
>
> 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....<snip>... trying to
> support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea.

Why is that a bad idea, Python does it all the time? Many software so
it all the time. This sounds like more fear than anything.

If you attempt to be full-featured, keeping it in one
> code base, let alone in one user interface, is destined to be a
> nightmare and induce suicides.

Thats False!

> The above might have been very slightly exaggerated.

Thats True!