[Pygui] Python 3 Plans

[Andrew McNabb]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:42:29PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> If they're starting to appear in other systems, maybe we can
> hope for some convergence in the future, so that they can
> be dealt with in a cross-platform way. Then we might see
> VCSes, web services, etc. start to respect them.

Web services can't start to respect them unless HTTP is changed to deal
with multiple streams for each file.  For true cross-platform support,
every file-related protocol and application would have to be changed
individually.  Given how slowly it's taking to upgrade to IPv6, it's
hard to imagine this happening anytime soon. :)


> Experience with resource forks in the classic era has shown
> how tremendously handy it can be to have a way of attaching
> out-of-band data to a file in such a way that it can't get
> accidentally lost and that apps that don't know about it can
> just ignore it.

My experience in the classic era was the same.  The out-of-band data
really were handy.  As soon as I started to use networks, however, the
out-of-band data became a nightmare.  I nostalgiacally recall many hours
spent dealing with files packed with BinHex and MacBinary and files that
should have been but weren't.

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