dmd 1.043 alpha for FreeBSD 7.1

[Anders F Björklund]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Michel Fortin 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.

It's also possible that "Mac OS X" stays in, while Darwin changes...

This already happened once before, to "Mac OS X Server" and Rhapsody.

>> 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.?

It would be more like version(NT), if you want to compare with Windows ?

GNU/Linux operating system versioning is a long sad story all by itself.

--anders