Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by doomlaser on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:02PM
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'macOS' is just too much of an affectation to ask for in styling capitalization. You'll notice a lot of people resisting it, defiantly writing 'MacOS'.
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Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by astrodust on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:57AM
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Traditionally "Mac OS" -> "[Mac] OS X" -> "macOS"
It was often compacted to MacOS for various reasons, like brevity, keyword searchability and tagging.
I dunno, it's hard to get better search ability than what we had with "osx". Among other things, there are a lot of code bases with Mac OS 9 code hanging around in directories named "macos".
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by rimantas on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:06PM
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Apple has now standardized the names: iPS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS.
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by draw_down on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:11PM
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OK, but this page is made by Apple.
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by terinjokes on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:16PM
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When you have a name for over a decade, you tend to have it hard coded in a bunch of places...
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by Ultra_64 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:36PM
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On the other hand, the official name was 'Mac OS X' until 2012.
Sure, but it was nearly always just referred to as "OS X", so the official renaming in 2012 was just moving it in line with how people already referred to it.
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by draw_down on Thursday November 24, 2016 @08:42AM
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Yeah, my company moved offices a few months back and we had the old location in a surprising number of places around the codebase.
Not really. "iOS" is standard and no resistance has been noted.
Re:MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components
by notmything on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:57AM
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So if one thing is true then other similar things must be true!!!
No resistance is overstepping, as far as I remember a few had a hard time foregoing iPhone OS initially. But that's maybe not what you're talking about.