Re: AppDirs, evolved?

Mark Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
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Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On 20 June 2010 01:42, Mithat Konar<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Is anyone familiar with the "SpatialBundle" concept being developed by Luca Cappelletti? Here is an Italian Wikipedia page on it (which Google translates reasonably well): http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatialBundle
>>
>> Of interest are the presence of AppRun, AppInfo.xml, and .DirIcon files. Do these come from an ancestor common to ROX, or is this a direct descendant of ROX?
>
> Those three are all used by ROX.
>
> RISC OS had !Run and !Sprites, which became AppRun and .DirIcon in ROX.
>
>
And let's not forget the BBC's !Boot before that, which is practically 
the ancestor of AppDirs and NeXTStep/Apple Mac Bundles.


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