[Pythonmac-SIG] librsync, pylibacl, pyxattr ?

Chinook chinook.nr at tds.net
Thu Sep 15 02:10:31 CEST 2005


Bob Ippolito wrote:

>On Sep 14, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Chinook wrote:
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>>Anyway, if I have to do it myself I figured I'd need three things I
>>don't have.  That is librsync, pylibacl and pyxattr.  On Bob's package
>>page I found xattr - is that the same as pyxattr (I'm assuming so for
>>the moment)?  Which leaves librsync and pylibacl.  I see various  
>>sources
>>for such, but before I go trying one at random I'm wondering if anyone
>>that has them on OS X has any specific recommendations.
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>No, pyxattr is for Linux, xattr is for Mac OS X.  I don't think the  
>implementations are quite compatible.  Also, xattr is not GPL.
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>-bob
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Thanks for the reply Bob,

Obviously xattr is what I really want then as I'm only interested in Mac 
OS X. I'll grab what you've so kindly put up and check it out. 

Any knowledge of the other two?

Thanks again,
Lee C



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