Re: spatial stuff detail

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

John Siracusa wrote:

> I see it, but I don't agree with it.  First, Linux is no more 
> "pluggable" than any Unix-ish OS, including OS X (i.e. both have 
> loadable kernel modules, file system plugins, shared libraries, etc.).


That's not the kind "pluggable" he's talking about. He's talking about 
how developers treat their software.
On non-open source systems like MacOS X and Win32, software are usually 
large and monolithics do-it-alls with (almost) no dependancies or bundle 
all dependancies with them. That's because those operating systems don't 
encourage code sharing as much. Linux on the other hand highly 
encourages code sharing, and developers tend to use a lot of libraries. 
Unless you want to bundle all dependancies (a bad thing), AppFolders is 
not realistic.