Andrew McNabb wrote:
Yeah. Extended attributes vary with different operating systems and filesystems.
If they're starting to appear in other systems, maybe we can hope for some convergence in the future, so that they can be dealt with in a cross-platform way. Then we might see VCSes, web services, etc. start to respect them. Experience with resource forks in the classic era has shown how tremendously handy it can be to have a way of attaching out-of-band data to a file in such a way that it can't get accidentally lost and that apps that don't know about it can just ignore it. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Pygui mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui
