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Cannot be run on another platform than OS X

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing the macos-alias dependency and the package's platform declaration to identify what prevents installation on Linux. Read the linked bookmarkData reference and compare the current behavior on OS X and Linux. Done means the package can install on Linux and create a .DS_Store file from a Linux build script without requiring darwin.

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Description

The dependency macos-alias requires platform OS X (os: darwin). This means I cannot install ds-store package in my environment.

I would like to create .DS_Store file in a build script that is run on Linux build server. Is the platform limitation really required? It would be nice if this was platform independent.

Edit: Maybe this link can be helpful: http://michaellynn.github.io/2015/10/24/apples-bookmarkdata-exposed/

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
23
Forks
12
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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