xdgmime (CVS, portability)

[Thiago Macieira]

Klemens Friedl wrote:
>It seems to rely on unix only things posix fnmatch. That's neither
>straight C (which would be the ANSI/ISO C, implemented in
>C-runtime-lib) nor is the following true "depends on anything" as it
>depends on posix :S

Relying on POSIX functions is ok since XDG targets Unix desktops. We have 
never promised that XDG reference tools will work on non-Unix 
environments.

However, patches are welcome that make tools work on non-Unix platforms, 
as long as they don't add unnecessary hurdle to the existing maintainers. 
Like I said in the other email, I doubt the usefulness of having a 
Unix-desktop tool in a non-Unix desktop environment.

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