Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> 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).
>>     
Yes.. we have work on handling . files in memory.. We have do to the 
same with . directories.

>> 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.
>>
>>
>>     
Yes.. We have to look into this.
Our biggest priority is Office tools however..
>>> - 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).
>>     

This should actually work now. OpenOffice Writer now works and I think 
it was failing because this was missing.
TextEdit is more complex because it's not a temp file but a temporary 
directory. It stills fails currently.

Ludovic
>> I suppose, it's the same on other platforms.
>>
>> paul
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