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Luckily it is a Linux only world, where we don't have to build cross platform solutions, none of that considering those nasty BSDs or Minix or anything else rea

• legulere 13y ago
  The question is if it’s worth the extra work. I think for minix it’s obvious that it’s not worth it — nobody is using it seriously as a desktop system with gnome (a quick googling for it even brought up that gnome 3 isn’t running on minix anyway). Relying on some things can make it easier to go forward (for instance the mentioned sandboxes).
  • npsimons 13y ago
    This point of view is perilously shortsighted; even I, a die-hard Linux fan, realize that nothing is forever. Someday (some would argue that day is today ;), nobody will be using Linux seriously as a desktop system with GNOME. Linux may not be around forever, and even if it is, one thing history has taught us is that it won't be the same. On top of all that, it's never wise to turn down an opportunity to test code against multiple targets (hardware, operating systems, compilers, etc). You'd be amazed at the bugs such testing flushes out.
    • legulere 13y ago
      Having to write an own abstraction layer as a perl script that often stops working certainly is more likely to introduce bugs than having a reliable dbus api. Spending the time needed instead for working on bugs that are actually reported by users is more useful. The developers only have a finite amount of time, either they use it to move forward or they use it to try to support every obscure system.