Re: about folder naming (Re: Updates on Freetype Demos - Swift Support)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

I am somewhat concerned that "cocoa" and "swift" are somewhat too specific (to the technology) and also somewhat too general (those two words have more common meanings in the non-tech world). Just throwing in some more ideas here.

Apple at some point called their current GUI system 'quartz' (hence the name "Xquartz", an X server running on top of quartz). And it used to be NextStep, and still shares some common infrastructures with GNUStep; and gnustep have some partial supports for xcode-like project files (the xcode equivalent of MS/VS sln/proj). And GNUStep has some obj-c support, if not written in obj-c itself.

Maybe a folder called "Steps", "NSteps" or some sort of "...step" etc, if the new work can be built against GNUstep on Linux?

On Tuesday 25 June 2024 at 20:36:11 BST, Sean McBride <sean@rogue-research.com> wrote:

On 23 Jun 2024, at 23:44, suzuki toshiya wrote:

> If we are working with Darwin kernel plus open source components provided by
> Apple, using "darwin" name might be a considerable option, because there had
> been the projects like OpenDarwin, PureDarwin, etc. But we are not

I agree, Darwin is not the right name here.

> - we are working with Swift (or Objective-C) and Cocoa.

Probably Cocoa or SwiftUI would be good names, depending on that "or".  What language / framework is actually be used here?

Sean