It seems that the NSBundle code for returning a path to a file with a
particular extension (pathForResource:ofType:inDirectory: etc) has an
undocumented feature of preferring to return the path to name-
operatingsystem.ext rather than name.ext if it can find a file with
that name (where operatingsystem is the name of the operating system
the program is running on).
This is presumably to return system specific files in preference to
generic versions, but it's an undocumented (as far as I can tell)
feature which, does not actually seem to be used anywhere. I'm going
to remove this and make the code match the documentation (and the
MacOS-X implementation), but if there is actually a good reason for
this code to be there we can add it back (and document it). It seems
to me that there is no good reason to have a special case to try to
load operating system specific resources, and if we did want to do
that, we should probably have such resources in a subdirectory rather
than having the system name as a suffix to the filename. If anyone
was to actually use name-operatingssystem.ext it would presumably
confuse any code which makes use of the pathsForResourceOfType: method
as this would return both versions of the file (name.ext and name-
operatingsystem.ext).
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