> Am 11.07.2024 um 14:51 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
> 
> Then there was a lot of "naming" [*]. NeXT xxx for the hardware, NeXTSTEP 
> NeXTstep, NeXTStep... and things got even more complicated with OpenStep.
> 
> So too they were trying to distinguish between the whole system (NeXTStep / 
> NeXTSTEP), NextSTEP (APIs without OS...).
> Things didn't improve that much with OpenStep... where actually things got 
> less clear. Why OpenStep for Solaris but OPENSTEP for Windows?
> 
> So some of this confusion we inherit from our roots.

Short intermezzo, there is a web page, that I use as a reference when I am 
confused:

https://www.objectfarm.org/Activities/Publications/TheMerger/OpenstepConfusion.html

So if we follow those conventions, GNUstep would be the frameworks/API and 
GNUSTEP the desktop.

If domain names were case sensitive we could have GNUstep.org for the 
frameworks and GNUSTEP.org for the desktop. ; )

Now that isn’t the case so we need other ideas …


Kind regards,

        Lars

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