- if you launch a copy when an other is already running, the files are added to the first queue, this avoid your hard drive to move its head all the time
- files saving: you can keep track of files you have copied, and re-copy them later (useful when, for example, you always copy some free music to all your friends).
- gcp will be approximately option-compatible with cp (approximately because the behaviour is not exactly the same, see below)
/!\ WARNING /!\
gcp is at an early stage of development, and really experimental: use at your own risks !
** How to use it ? **
Pretty much like cp (see gcp --help).
Please note that the behaviour is not exactly the same as cp, even if gcp want to be option-compatible. Mainly, the destination filenames can be changed (by default, can be deactivated).
gcp doesn't implement yet all the options from cp, but it's planed.
gcp use ProgressBar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2), a class coded by Nilton Volpato which allow the textual representation of progression.
GLib:
This heavily used library is used here for the main loop and event catchins, and for DBus also
DBus:
This excellent IPC is in the heart of gcp
python and its amazing standard library:
gcp was coded quickly for my own need thanks to this excellent and efficient language and its really huge standard library.
If I forgot any credit, please contact me (mail below) to fix it.
** Contact **
You can contact me at goffi@goffi.org .
You'll find the latest version on my website: http://www.goffi.org (it's mainly in french, I will probably make a little part in english in the future).
You can also have a look to my other main projects (and maybe to the smaller ones too ;) ):
- lm (list movie): a tool to list movies using IMdB data, loosely inspired from ls
- SàT: my main project, a jabber/XMPP client, which is a brick to many others things I have in mind