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Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? [message #180382 is a reply to message #180353] Thu, 07 February 2013 01:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:24:38 -0700, crankypuss wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 06:08 AM, Arno Welzel wrote:
>> Tim Streater, 2013-02-05 13:56:
>>
>>> In article <5110FDFB(dot)4030601(at)arnowelzel(dot)de>,
>>> Arno Welzel <usenet(at)arnowelzel(dot)de> wrote:
>>>
>> [...]
>>>> > My desktop app uses JavaScript to present to the user, and PHP for
>>>> > backend stuff such as writing to SQLite databases, communicating
>>>> > over the net, writing log files, and other functions that the app
>>>> > needs. I use apache/ajax to communicate between the two. As I said
>>>> > before - heavy? Sure, but who cares.
>>>>
>>>> I would care if i would need all that stuff just to be able to run an
>>>> application. It's not only about processing power or memory
>>>> consumption - but also about security and stability. The more
>>>> components you put together the more likely something can go wrong.
>>>
>>> Look, here's a bar magnet and a magnifying glass. Now you can edit the
>>> bits directly on the disk, no need for any software components at all.
>>> Happy now?
>>
>> You don't get it or you never wrote an application which you made
>> available to the public.
>>
>>
> I used to make some stuff available to others, and I've used more cuss
> words on other people's components than anything else... for that matter
> I've yet to find an operating system that I can really trust over the
> long haul, application code keeps having to implement workaround after
> workaround to counteract changes in successive releases. I remember
> some gawdawful conditional assembler code to make some stuff that should
> have been pretty simple just keep working as the system interfaces
> shifted around under it like jello.
>
> Sometimes I think "what the world needs" (or at least, what I'd like to
> have a copy of) is a Linux distro called LCDlinux (for Lowest Common
> Denominator) so an LCD could actually be *established* and then improved
> at the system level.

There already *is* such a thing, and it's not called LCD, it's called LSB,
and has been mentioned here multiple times in the past:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base>

mike keeps talking about this concept, and mechanic keeps talking about
this concept, and T i m keeps talking about this concept, and I've talked
about this concept, and all the vocal Linux users make fun of it and call
it "the Win-droid way".

The problem is, it seems as though there's not enough interest in
achieving that goal, as some have literally said they couldn't care less
about standards and they'll just go ahead with whatever they want to
implement regardless of whether or not it breaks compatibilities.

That's what FOSS is all about.....you don't like the direction some app
or [whatever] is going, so you fork it off and start your own. It's an
ego thing, "it's my way or the highway", and if you don't like it, "I'm
taking my ball and going home", er, "copying the ball and going home."

Only one app may survive, maybe neither, or both, but then you divide the
userbase also, so each app has less users.
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