On 24 December 2013 16:37, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, a quick check would have revealed that it is. > Cross platform development always requires testing on the targetted > platforms, > one can not simply assume things. >
But I don't go and check that simple commands like cp or grep will work on a Mac. It's easy to see how someone could have assumed that 'open' is a similarly common command and would work on Linux systems. Of course you can blame developers who make incorrect assumptions, but why not aim to make the obvious assumptions correct? . > Even if a tool or command with the same name exists it might have different > capabilities, arguments or options. That is a valid concern - OSX's open has several options that xdg-open does not (currently). But I think the benefit of having a similar obvious way to load files and URLs outweighs that. Developers are also familiar with common commands like cc and make being provided by different implementations that may support different options. Thomas
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