Re: OS X to macOS

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OS X to macOS
Date: 2017-02-18 18:23:45
Message-ID: F1A39DCD-0E43-4150-8133-E04BF336CACF@yesql.se
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> On 18 Feb 2017, at 17:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>>> Apple rebranded Mac OS X to macOS in 2016, and are now referring to all
>>> versions as macOS.
>
>> Have they retroactively re-branded old versions, or do we need to consider
>> that?
>
> As Daniel said, they're retroactively calling all versions macOS. I'm
> sure you can still find "OS X" in places, but that's just because they
> haven't been thorough about updating everything.

Although it might qualify as nitpicking, I did deliberately leave OS X Server
10.7 with “OS X” since that’s an app and not an operating system, and it was
when shipped named OS X Server.

> I think "macOS" is just better all-around for our purposes, and we should
> be grateful for the opportunity to change our documentation.

+1

cheers ./daniel

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