Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollans.com> writes: > On 07/11/2010 07:44 AM, rantingrick wrote: >> On Jul 10, 10:59 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton >> <luke.leigh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser >>> >>> $ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4") >>> >>> conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out. >>> entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined. always >>> a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com >>> with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as >>> grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written >>> in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled]. >>> >>> l. >> >> 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! Yes i know there are >> tons of them out there already and Python is a bit slow, but i think >> it would be useful to many peoples. > > 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. Well, it would work, but it wouldn't > be any good. The UNIX and Windows concepts of "file system" are similar > enough for most programs not to care too much, but for something like a > file manager, that works intimately with the file system, trying to > support both UNIX and Windows is NOT a good idea.
Can't think of why not. Of course not all operations are shared by each OS, but /I/ know that I can't do chmod on Windows. But it doesn't mean that on Windows I can't make a file only readable by me. Just give me the Windows security options on Windows, and chmod on *nix and I would be very happy. Especially if all can be done via a context menu a la RISC OS. -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list