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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cgorac" data-source="post: 55229" data-attributes="member: 1689">The discussion was about compatibility in the context of programming interface, and I'd say your statement is wrong in that regard. For Unix systems, <a href="http://www.unix.org/version4/" target="_blank">POSIX</a> is mature and well-maintained programming API. Also, Unix programmers have choice between number of tools, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_build_system" target="_blank">GNU autotools</a> or <a href="http://www.cmake.org/" target="_blank">CMake</a> (CMake works to some extent for Windows too) that could help them to detect all sort of platform specifics at project build configuration time. None of this is case for Windows programmers: native Windows programming interface is very clumsy, and APIs change at will (I never understood how it is possible that Windows programmers accept they have to rewrite their applications every couple years: first they had to use Win32 API, then MFC, then ATL/COM, now they have to use .Net - and basically they are told to switch to new programming language for this last change - and who knows what comes next).That said, I guess that what you had on your mind is compatibility in the context of installing applications, especially regarding dependencies between given application and needed libraries. In this context, you're right - although there exist efforts for standardization in that domain, like <a href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/" target="_blank">FHS</a>, the current situation is far from ideal.</blockquote>

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