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As a product developer, maintaining a consistent feature set across OSes makes perfect sense to me. It is a struggle to get consistent behavior across different
by failrate 10y ago
As a product developer, maintaining a consistent feature set across OSes makes perfect sense to me. It is a struggle to get consistent behavior across different versions of Windows, let alone entirely different OS types.
- kitsunesoba 10y agoSome level of consistency is absolutely desirable but I'm not sure that full-on lowest common denominator is the right approach.
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- astevens 10y agoOn a technical level I totally agree, supporting tweaks and quirks in a codebase is a massive pain in the ass. That's not the reason that has been given here - there was no claim that the technology was difficult to bring up to current spec. The reason was that non-GNU platforms had better font handling and now that's not allowed for a GNU project.
- simonh 10y agoConsistency isn't the objective though. If there are features on free platforms that don't exist on proprietary platforms, this policy would be no barrier to implementing them.