Re: [PATCH 1/4] ptsname_r: new module

[Bruno Haible]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Although it is common to see, e.g. Mac OS X 10.5 in writing, it's
> redundant and technically incorrect.

Possibly. But when discussing gnulib, I want to never evoke the impression
that gnulib could support MacOS 9 or earlier.

> or use the cat name
> 
>    Mac OS X Leopard
>    Mac OS Leopard

Certainly not. In gnulib the version numbers and the order among version
numbers is very important. And there's no natural ordering among the predator
names "Leopard", "Panther", "Tiger" that would be easy to remember. Even
where such an order exists, e.g. between "Hardy", "Intrepid", "Karmic", and
"Lucid", version numbers carry more information.

Bruno
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