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Cross-platform software

Within computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software requires a separate build for each platform, but some can be directly run on any platform without special…

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Cross-platform software

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Avg. degree1.99
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Cross-platform software

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Cross-platform software → Cross-platform, Developers, Different, For, GNOME, InstallAnywhere, KDE, Microsoft Windows, MSI, Multi-platform, RPM, Scripting, Sun Microsystems, Testing, There, This, Though, VM, When

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Monoinstance ofand Linux.Other implementations0.80text
C or Cinstance ofJust because software is written in a popular programming language0.80text
the Page Object Model allow cross-platform tests to be scripted so that one test case covers multiple versions of an appinstance ofTechniques such as full virtualization are sometimes used as a workaround for this problem.Tools0.80text
Firefoxinstance ofan application0.80text
which already runs on Windows on the x86 familyinstance ofan application0.80text
can be modifiedinstance ofan application0.80text
re-built to run on Linux on the x86instance ofan application0.80text
Cinstance ofwritten in eC and with support for additional languages0.80text
Pythoninstance ofwritten in eC and with support for additional languages0.80text
RPMinstance ofbut some computational overhead may be unavoidable.Different platforms require the use of native package formats0.80text
MSIinstance ofbut some computational overhead may be unavoidable.Different platforms require the use of native package formats0.80text
InstallAnywhere address this need.Cross-platform execution environments may suffer cross-platform security flawsinstance ofMulti-platform installers0.80text

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