grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[Stephen Hansen]

On 7/11/10 6:10 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jul 11, 7:31 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt... at ixokai.io> wrote:
> 
> You said about macs...
>> Copying a file without the resource fork on a mac, *can* result in
>> essential data being lost (This is less common then it used to be). As
>> simple a task as chown/chmod for posix systems to take ownership of a
>> file and make it only readable by you is actually a *deeply* complex
>> task with the win32api.
> 
> And again...
>> That's not even getting into the nitty-gritty details, like how Mac's
>> are *usually* case-insensitive, windows is always, linux is almost
>> always not, and yet some power users go out of their way to enable
>> case-sensitivity on mac filesystems (which has a tendency to break all
>> kinds of things).
> 
> And again...
>> Oh, and a LOT of the filesystem-details and how you could go around
>> handling them on a mac is *very* dependant on just what version of OSX
>> you have. It changes a lot.
> 
> Well i've never used a mac and now i won't even bother for sure! But
> if you want to maintain the macfman code base feel free.

I like how you tried to cut out my commentary on Windows and its
difficulties and peculiarities, but you accidentally included it anyways
-- hint: read more then the first line of a paragraph.

My point stands.

And I take your non actually responding to my actual point as a
concession to it. With that, I'm signing off of this conversation.

Tah.

-- 

   Stephen Hansen
   ... Also: Ixokai
   ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io
   ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/

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