Re: [Nautilus-list] Integration of gmc and nautilus desktop directories.

[Ian McKellar <ian eazel com>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:45:28PM -0300, Cesar Cardoso wrote:
> Em 13 Apr 2001 15:35:04 -0700, Ian McKellar escreveu:
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:23:35PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > and what about making nautilus run on non-perfectly posix
> > > > platforms?  shooting yourself in the foot at this stage (before it gets
> > > > entrenched as a 'normal' place to store the desktop data) is kinda silly.
> > > 
> > > Asking the system to provide POSIX conformance is a very reasonable
> > > request. If people would like to port Nautilus to non-POSIX systems,
> > > they are welcome to, but dealing with such fringe contingencies seems a
> > > waste of developer time (unless it happens to scratch your particular
> > > itch).
> > 
> > I mean, name a platform that *isn't* POSIX compliant!
> > 
> I can only remember Windows 9x/ME.

But Win2k has a POSIX layer (afaik), and MS is phasing out the old DOS based
platforms.

> MacOS before X also, but Apple wants
> to make it dead.

Exactly - the new OS is POSIX compliant.

> Hm, AmigaOS?

Umm - dead. Where have you been for the last 5 years man! ;-)

Ian