> One thing you do not see fragmenting are command-line tools, because people tend to agree on their function(1).
Hm. top and htop do mostly the same thing. So do more, less and most, as examples of multiple tools for the same job. awk behaves slightly different on MacOS X. Bash is stuck at version 3.x there, too, for examples of different tools on different platforms. Some Linux distributions come with dash as /bin/sh, whereas others still use bash there. Which version of gcc you get in a given distribution seems mostly down to luck, as examples of fragmentation even within one operating system.
I wouldn’t say that there is no fragmentation of command-line tools, but maybe the individual fragments are smaller (as opposed to the two to four larger “fragments” GTK, Qt, MacOS X and Windows).
Hm. top and htop do mostly the same thing. So do more, less and most, as examples of multiple tools for the same job. awk behaves slightly different on MacOS X. Bash is stuck at version 3.x there, too, for examples of different tools on different platforms. Some Linux distributions come with dash as /bin/sh, whereas others still use bash there. Which version of gcc you get in a given distribution seems mostly down to luck, as examples of fragmentation even within one operating system.
I wouldn’t say that there is no fragmentation of command-line tools, but maybe the individual fragments are smaller (as opposed to the two to four larger “fragments” GTK, Qt, MacOS X and Windows).