<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2013 15:06, Kevin Krammer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:krammer@kde.org" target="_blank">krammer@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> BTW, I happen to know one breakage caused by Linux not having open(1) like<br>
> OS X. <a href="https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python/issues/8" target="_blank">https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python/issues/8</a><br>
<br>
</div>Looks like the implementors either had not thought about cross platform<br>
integration or had no information about things outside the platform they are<br>
working on.</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think it would be beneficial for 'open' to work the way that people writing scripts on OS X expect, i.e. an alias to xdg-open, because it's not obvious that it is a platform specific thing.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Of course, you'd still need to consider cross platform compatibility for Windows, but people are used to assuming that similar shell commands work across posix-y platforms, while Windows is a very different ball game.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thomas<br></div></div>