On Aug 13, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > If we were talking about portmgr then I would agree. But I don't think > MacPorts is a collective noun, it's a proper noun denoting a single > project. That the name has a plural form probably confuses the issue > further.
I don't know, I think one could make a good case for sentences like: - "MacPorts are crazy for using Tcl." - "MacPorts are debating a strategy to handle the Crisis of Infinite Perls." But, to emphasize the singularity of the project: - "MacPorts is split on Subversion versus Git versus Mercurial versus timestamped folders." And, of course, references to the software itself should be singular: - "MacPorts compels me to imbibe liberally." In the end, these all sound insane because I'm American. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
