Re: <productname> on SGML files is used for what ?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 10:24:39AM -0300, Marcos Pegoraro wrote:
> Em qui., 5 de mar. de 2026 às 19:12, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
> escreveu:
>
> Mind you, we aren't using the tagging exactly according to the
> specification so
> appropriate levels of salt should be applied, for example <application> is
> meant to be used for larger software packages whereas we apply it pg_dump
> etc.
>
>
> That's correct, but which ones should use different tags, and which tag would
> be the correct one, because many of them certainly aren't applications.
> Should we differentiate them: applications, extensions, languages, protocols,
> trade names, libraries, ... ?
> This is the complete list of items used by this tag:
> PHP,AIX,Apache,Berkeley Postgres,Bison,Bonjour,Bucardo,bzip2,check_pgsql,
> check_postgres,Continuent Tungsten,CrackLib,curl,Curl,Cygwin,Debian GNU/
> Linux,Diff,DocBook,
> DRBD,Emacs,Flex,FOP,FreeBSD,GCC,GDB,Gettext,Git,GNU,GNU Gettext,GNU grep,GNU
> Libtool,GSSAPI,
> gzip,IBM
> DB2,ICU,ICU4C,Informix,Ingres,Ispell,Kerberos,libc,libnuma,LibreSSL,libselinux,libxml2,
> libxslt,Linux,Linux-PAM,LLVM,Londiste,LZ4,macOS,Magicsplat Tcl,Meson,Microsoft
> Windows,
> Microsoft Windows SDK,minidumps,MIT Kerberos,MySQL,NetBSD,NSS,NTLM,nXML
> Mode,OpenBSD,OpenLDAP,
> OpenOffice,OpenSSL,Oracle,ossp-uuid,perf,Perl,pgBadger,pglogical,pkg-config,PL/
> Proxy,PostGIS,
> Postgres,POSTGRES,Postgres95,PostgreSQL,POSTGRES,Version
> 4.2,Pro*C,Python,Readline,rsyslog,
> SELinux,selinux-policy,Slony,Slony-I,Solaris,SSPI,Strawberry
> Perl,systemd,Tcl,vi,vim,
> Visual Studio,Visual Studio 2019,Visual Studio 2022,Visual Studio
> Express,Windows,
> Windows Debugger Tools,Windows SDK,Windows SDK
> 10,WinLDAP,Wireshark,zlib,Zstandard

When to use which tag isn't always clear. When Peter Eisentraut
initially did the work, he said just pick the best one, and use
<literal> if you are unclear.

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