On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 07:42:29PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > > 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.
Web services can't start to respect them unless HTTP is changed to deal with multiple streams for each file. For true cross-platform support, every file-related protocol and application would have to be changed individually. Given how slowly it's taking to upgrade to IPv6, it's hard to imagine this happening anytime soon. :) > 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. My experience in the classic era was the same. The out-of-band data really were handy. As soon as I started to use networks, however, the out-of-band data became a nightmare. I nostalgiacally recall many hours spent dealing with files packed with BinHex and MacBinary and files that should have been but weren't. -- 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
