On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:32:30PM -0600, Matt Anderson wrote: > > Actually, Linux, FreeBSD and others support extended attributes also[1]. Not > doing lots with linux or freebsd recently, I'm not sure how widely they're > used though. I don't think that having xattrs is inherently a problem, in > fact they're very convenient and powerful. It's just unfortunate they aren't > standardized across the various OSes. The details are frequently > filesystem-dependent.
Yeah. Extended attributes vary with different operating systems and filesystems. Additionally, since the metadata is not part of the normal stream of data, support would have to be individually added to every program and network protocol dealing with data. This simply isn't practical. I'm convinced that for most purposes, extended attributes are the wrong solution. Anyway, I guess I'm getting off-topic. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 _______________________________________________ Pygui mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui
