Interesting.
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Originally Posted by HarmonS
... and I also got python and pycrypto installed in Wine, so I can run the inept scripts okay, and can now download books through ADE from the library or wherever, and then strip the DRM off them.
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That's good, but loading a Windows version of Python under Wine is an offensive concept to me.
Python, like so many scripting languages before it, is supposed to be a write once, run everywhere language. A python program that runs on Windows should run on Linux. Java started out that way, but Microsoft peed in the pool with incompatible versions of Java for Windows. Yeah, yeah, I know this is a different issue, because there is data that has to be retrieved from the Windows-specific registry, but it still stinks of Windows requiring everything to be unique for it.
I started out thinking I would clean up Windows-centric stuff or add Linux components to complement it. But I'm new to Python and I realized there's a lot to learn. And learning Python right is even a bigger goal than straightening out this particular app. (But I'm not even working on that yet.)
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Originally Posted by HarmonS
It would be a heck of a lot simpler if Adobe and Sony would just get their act together and put out linux versions of their software ...
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You got that right.
