Jeff Hostetler <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not sure that there is a "correct" answer here, but for the sake > of harmony, in V4 I'll set this to "darwin" and update the name of > the backend driver source file to match. So that we are consistently > using 1 term throughout "Makefile" and "config.mak.uname". > > ifeq ($(uname_S),Darwin) > ... > FSMONITOR_DAEMON_BACKEND = darwin > endif > ... I do not think it would help "harmony" to change the name, but any one of 'darwin', 'macos' and 'osx' would be fine. It was irritating to see a simple "why is this particular name chosen?" answered with such a hostility, when even a "we have no deep reasoning behind the choice of the name. It is only seen by developers in names of the source files, and it does not make much difference" would have been sufficient. I somehow view it more problematic. I guess the blame goes both ways, though. We all have worked with each other long enough to know which of your recipients are prone to go overly defensive when asked questions, and we should know that it would help to prepend "I am just being curious but..." to your questions whose answers do not make a huge difference at the end either way (or not asking such questions at all). Thanks.
