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

[Ian McKellar <ian eazel com>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:07:47PM -0300, Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
> 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?

GNOME was ported to AmigaOS? ;-)

Ian