[Pygui] Python 3 Plans

[Greg Ewing]

Andrew McNabb wrote:

> That's a very valid complaint.  I think in a few years, we'll start
> seeing more integration with the Finder (with contextual menus, etc.)

To my way of thinking, the VCS should be implemented as a
virtual file system. Then you could access the files any
way you wanted and it would always do the right thing.

> Are you still using Mac OS 9? :)  I didn't know that you could still
> have resource forks in OS X.

Yes, MacOSX still has them, although Apple seems to be
discouraging their use in new apps. I'm using BBEdit Lite,
which started its life in the classic era, and it uses
the resource fork to store info about tab settings, line
endings, etc.

> As far as file types go, I've never seen
> OS X use anything other than the file extension.

Apps ported over from the previous era still do, but
you're right, this is another thing that that Apple seems
to be trying to kill. It's a great pity, because the old
way was vastly superior in several respects. I'm quite
disappointed by the way Apple is letting OSX get dragged
down to the lowest common denominator for the sake of
compatibility with inferior systems.

> The only metadata I've
> seen in OS X is the .DS_Store, which has things like icon positioning,
> etc.--things which don't seem particularly important for a code project.

I don't care about icon positioning much any more. I
used to take pleasure in arranging my file icons in
useful ways, but OSX ruined the whole experience by
having the Finder insist on spacing them about 5 miles
apart horizontally when using the snapping grid. So
I've given up on icons and I use the column view
almost exclusively now.

> I certainly wouldn't want to talk you into using version control if the
> change would kill off PyGUI

Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't find it *that* bad by a
long shot. And I fully understand that a VCS is going
to be a prerequisite to getting it into Python. But I
don't feel that it's anywhere near that level of
maturity yet. It's still very early days.

-- 
Greg