Andrew McNabb wrote:
That's a very valid complaint. I think in a few years, we'll start seeing more integration with the Finder (with contextual menus, etc.)
To my way of thinking, the VCS should be implemented as a virtual file system. Then you could access the files any way you wanted and it would always do the right thing.
Are you still using Mac OS 9? :) I didn't know that you could still have resource forks in OS X.
Yes, MacOSX still has them, although Apple seems to be discouraging their use in new apps. I'm using BBEdit Lite, which started its life in the classic era, and it uses the resource fork to store info about tab settings, line endings, etc.
As far as file types go, I've never seen OS X use anything other than the file extension.
Apps ported over from the previous era still do, but you're right, this is another thing that that Apple seems to be trying to kill. It's a great pity, because the old way was vastly superior in several respects. I'm quite disappointed by the way Apple is letting OSX get dragged down to the lowest common denominator for the sake of compatibility with inferior systems.
The only metadata I've seen in OS X is the .DS_Store, which has things like icon positioning, etc.--things which don't seem particularly important for a code project.
I don't care about icon positioning much any more. I used to take pleasure in arranging my file icons in useful ways, but OSX ruined the whole experience by having the Finder insist on spacing them about 5 miles apart horizontally when using the snapping grid. So I've given up on icons and I use the column view almost exclusively now.
I certainly wouldn't want to talk you into using version control if the change would kill off PyGUI
Oh, don't worry, I wouldn't find it *that* bad by a long shot. And I fully understand that a VCS is going to be a prerequisite to getting it into Python. But I don't feel that it's anywhere near that level of maturity yet. It's still very early days. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Pygui mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui
