On 24 December 2013 15:06, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW, I happen to know one breakage caused by Linux not having open(1) > like > > OS X. https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python/issues/8 > > Looks like the implementors either had not thought about cross platform > integration or had no information about things outside the platform they > are > working on.
I think it would be beneficial for 'open' to work the way that people writing scripts on OS X expect, i.e. an alias to xdg-open, because it's not obvious that it is a platform specific thing. Of course, you'd still need to consider cross platform compatibility for Windows, but people are used to assuming that similar shell commands work across posix-y platforms, while Windows is a very different ball game. Thomas
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