grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

rantingrick rantingrick at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 21:10:19 EDT 2010


On Jul 11, 7:31 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt... at ixokai.io> wrote:

You said about macs...
> Copying a file without the resource fork on a mac, *can* result in
> essential data being lost (This is less common then it used to be). As
> simple a task as chown/chmod for posix systems to take ownership of a
> file and make it only readable by you is actually a *deeply* complex
> task with the win32api.

And again...
> That's not even getting into the nitty-gritty details, like how Mac's
> are *usually* case-insensitive, windows is always, linux is almost
> always not, and yet some power users go out of their way to enable
> case-sensitivity on mac filesystems (which has a tendency to break all
> kinds of things).

And again...
> Oh, and a LOT of the filesystem-details and how you could go around
> handling them on a mac is *very* dependant on just what version of OSX
> you have. It changes a lot.

Well i've never used a mac and now i won't even bother for sure! But
if you want to maintain the macfman code base feel free.

> Selective quoting to make it sound like I'm agreeing in some way with
> you = jerkoff move.

*fakes throwing stick*
*dog runs to get stick but stick not there*

Who's smarter ;-)




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