dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 20:38:26 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Michel Fortin
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> To me it's clear that Darwin is the core on which Mac OS X and iPhone OS are
> based on. Mac OS X looks like a marketing name to me; I wouldn't be
> surprised if in a few years it gets renamed to Mac OS XI, or something else,
> because Mac OS X 10.10 would sound bad, just as would Mac OS X 11. Perhaps
> we'll see Mac OS 11, iOS or something; whatever the change, the "X" part
> will have to move out at some point.
>
> I believe Darwin is a more stable identifier for the architecture than Mac
> OS X.

Out of all the arguments put forth so far, I think this is the
strongest.  OSX is just the name of Apple's 10th Mac OS.  Why would we
have version(OSX), but not version(WinXP), version(WinVista),
version(LinuxUbuntuGutsy) etc. etc. etc.?


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