On 07/12/2010 01:44 AM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jul 11, 11:31 am, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> wrote: >> On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote: > >>> Congratulations on this effort Luke. However you know what project i >>> would really like to see the community get around? ...dramatic pause >>> here... a cross platform Python file browser! >> >> Cross platform file manager. Hmm. Does "cross platform" involve UNIX and >> something that isn't UNIX, say, Windows? >> Erm, no. No, no, no. It won't work....<snip>... trying to >> support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea. > > Why is that a bad idea, Python does it all the time? Many software so > it all the time. This sounds like more fear than anything.
Python is not a file manager. > > If you attempt to be full-featured, keeping it in one >> code base, let alone in one user interface, is destined to be a >> nightmare and induce suicides. > > Thats False! > >> The above might have been very slightly exaggerated. > > Thats True! > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
