Hi Paul,

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bit more hints from the Mac front:
>
>
> Le 30-juil.-08 à 01:52, Ludovic Dubost a écrit :
>
>  We now have on Mac:
>> - WebDAV working for browsing and downloading files
>>
>
> that's cool. It generates .DS_Store files in each directory that is browsed
> btw... you may want to care to allow temporarily these (they used to have
> weird permissions).
> Also, it would be nice to generate the .localized files to have directory
> names that change according to language.
>

I'm working on this issue these days, will put a fix soon :)


>
>
>
>> - WebDAV working for drag and dropping files
>> - WebDAV working with vi in view, edit and save (it says on save that the
>> file was changed while editing although it's not true)
>>
>
> that is a major annoyance.
>
>
>> - WebDAV working with a patched version of  OpenOffice (with a fix for
>> locking) or with official NeoOffice in view edit and save
>> - WebDAV working with TextEdit in view, edit but NOT save
>> Mac OSX generates phony attachments to store temporart files. TextEdit
>> fails because it tries to create a file then MOVE it (it might be because of
>> the same locking issue as OpenOffice).
>>
>
> Note: this practice of write then move is the de-facto standard, it is also
> used in emacs and jEdit (though the latter makes it configurable), and, I
> think, BBedit. The simple reason is that you don't want to crash the
> previous version if you crash in the middle of a save (which happens).
>
> I suppose, it's the same on other platforms.
>
> paul
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