On 3/18/2010 3:54 AM, Tim Golden wrote: > On 17/03/2010 20:43, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> The intent is just to provide as similar as possible a user experience. >>> From a coding POV, it is surely simpler to just use 'winuser' and >>> 'wingroup', >> but I am sort of philosophically wired to not throw information away if >> it's a available from the OS. > > It's hardly worth disputing I suppose, but I would argue that simply > presenting the owner & group of a file in Windows is actually doing > a disservice to the user of the app. It's cluttering up the display > with information which is essentially useless. Pretty much the only > time I ever look at a file owner is when I have some knotty security > issue and I need to assess who might have WRITE_DAC permission. The > group - never; it really is a relic. > > The file owner & group simply don't play the same role in Windows > security that they do in *nix. The trouble is that there isn't a > simple alternative: most files, even with default security, will > have two or three groups involved in their security at different > levels. > >> BTW, wanna beta test a really cool CLI mass file renaming tool????? ;) > > Sure -- I'll have a look. But I can't promise any great amount of > time at present :) > > TJG >
I will announce the Beta for 'tren' here and you (and anyone else) can have at it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
