No Love For Darwin?

There's an interesting column regarding the attention -- or lack thereof -- that Darwin is getting, at least compared to OS X. Somogyi points some out some interesting diversions of interest that people are having, and what exactly is Apple /doing/ about Darwin?

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Bundles should get more attention

[Ukab the Great]

I feel that one of the strongest points of Darwin that everyone is really overlooking is the Bundle system, a directory that groups together all the associated files of an application (and which abstracts out this directory *as* the application). This is a system far superior to the way that windows or any linux/RPM deals with the question of "what constitutes a packaged application?". If you have a centralized database such into which app information is installed (such as the RPM database or windows registry) and there is no metadata or anything else from which a new database can be rebuilt, you end up with a techsupport nightmare. The centralized database could (and usually does) get hosed and (re)(de)installing an application is difficult if not impossible. The bundle system presents a far more robust solution, since all files associated with an app are kept together in a directory and not just in a single, fragile, non-rebuildable database. The bundle system could dramatically reduce the TCO that windows incurs through the registry (probably at the cost I/O efficiency), something the corporate world would find attractive (if the dumb bastards actually looked at TCO when making purchasing decisions). Linux should scrap RPM/Deb altogether and simply go with Bundles.

Darwin on Intel!

[table and chair]

Right here.


That should get you started. ;)