grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[Thomas Jollans]

On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jul 10, 10:59 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <luke.leigh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser
>>
>> $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4")
>>
>> conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out.
>> entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined.  always
>> a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com
>> with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as
>> grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written
>> in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled].
>>
>> l.
> 
> 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! Yes i know there are
> tons of them out there already and Python is a bit slow, but i think
> it would be useful to many peoples.

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. Well, it would work, but it wouldn't
be any good. The UNIX and Windows concepts of "file system" are similar
enough for most programs not to care too much, but for something like a
file manager, that works intimately with the file system, trying to
support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea.

If you stick to common functionality, the program will be rather useless
on both systems. Yes, you could *browse* the file system alright, but
that's about it. 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.

The above might have been very slightly exaggerated.

Cheers!
Thomas