OS-specific
Adjective
Meaning
OS-specific (comparative more OS-specific, superlative most OS-specific)
(software) written for a specific operating system
Examples
APM-aware applications (which include device drivers) talk to an OS-specific APM driver.
Following an object-convergence model has various benefits: It makes your resource manifest declarative, abstracting away various details (e.g., OS-specific actions); and it makes definitions simpler to read, modify and audit.
I don't think OS-specific issues would be a problem.
It solves the distribution problem, sinks the costs at the OS vendors, and avoids requiring coordination at the price of the safe plugins still being OS-specific binaries (which we live with today).