On Jul 11, 7:31 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@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 ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
