[Dovecot] Standards of expectations for software installs

[Jerry]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:58:38 +0200
Marc Haber <mh+dovecot at zugschlus.de> articulated:

> That depends on what you define "standard". Why do so many software
> authors ship a default configuration which violates posix and fhs?

Probably due to the fact that while many *.nix/BSD OSs claim to support
'posix' etc. they don't fully do so. The problems involved in getting
certain program to operate between *.nix and BSD alone is enough to
make a grown man cry. Vendors are simply doing what they have to in
order to insure that their applications will work on as wide a scale as
possible. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is not even standard
between various *.nix and BSD systems, let alone a Microsoft one. It
seems that everyone has to reinvent the wheel.

-- 
Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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