On 7/11/10 6:10 PM, rantingrick wrote: > 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.
I like how you tried to cut out my commentary on Windows and its difficulties and peculiarities, but you accidentally included it anyways -- hint: read more then the first line of a paragraph. My point stands. And I take your non actually responding to my actual point as a concession to it. With that, I'm signing off of this conversation. Tah. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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