Alleged deprecation of shutils (Re: [Python-Dev] Function in os module for available disk space, why)

[Guido van Rossum]

> > All current filemanagers on Linux (KDE kfm, Gnome gmc) are flawed 
> > in this respect.
> 
> I don't think you can call that a "flaw", given that these
> filemanagers are only designed to deal with Unix file systems.
> 
> I think it's reasonable to only expect things in the platform
> os module to deal with the platform's native file system.
> Trying to anticipate how every platform's cross-platform
> file servers for all other platforms are going to store their
> data just isn't practical.

You say that now, but as such cross-system servers become more common,
we should expect the tools to deal with them well, rather than
complain "the other guy doesn't play by our rules".

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)