Re: Rebranding OS X as macOS

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rebranding OS X as macOS
Date: 2016-09-24 23:19:37
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQiOM-eguS54JR-r5EkFg3zOdkURg65T2733=+vNUyf6A@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 1:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Apple has decided to rename Mac OS X to "macOS", and apparently is now
> retroactively referring to old releases that way too. I propose that
> we should do likewise, ie run around and clean up our various references
> to "Mac OS X", "OS X", or "OSX" to uniformly say "macOS". I think it's
> considerably clearer to non-Apple people exactly what that is, plus
> there's not so much temptation towards variant spellings.
>
> We also have various uses of the ancient code name "Darwin". I think
> we should change that to "macOS" in user-facing docs, but I'm less
> inclined to do so in the code. In particular, renaming the template
> file or trying to change the PORTNAME value seems much too messy,
> so I think we should stick to "darwin" as the port name.

+1 to all that. I am seeing the same trend regarding the naming.
--
Michael

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