Re: AppDirs, evolved?
Mark Williams <[email protected]>
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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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo