Re: [Nautilus-list] POSIXly Nautilus (was Re: Integration of gmc and nautilus desktop directories)

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <evandro cmgiovan terra com br>]

Em Sexta 13 Abril 2001 20:51, you wrote:
> Em 13 Apr 2001 20:43:52 -0300, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini escreveu:
> > > Hm.
> > > So, if all OS in the market are POSIX-compliant, and Nautilus can be
> > > ported to any POSIX-compliant system...
> > > ...someone can port Nautilus to MacOS X or Windows XP, right? ;-)
> >
> > anyone can port nautilus to any OS, nautilus is free software.
>
> The fact of being free software doesn't mean that you can port to
> whenever OS you want. There are a lot of technical difficulties... It's
> not getting Nautilus and port it to, hm, DOS using Desqview.
> In a POSIX-only world, I agree with you. But most computers nowadays run
> OSs that isn't POSIX-compliant.

have you forgotten that gnome was ported to the OS most computers are running 
nowadays?

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Evandro