grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[Thomas Jollans]

On 07/12/2010 01:44 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> 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.

Python is not a file manager.

> 
> 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!
>