[PATCH] wined3d: Modernize the macOS spelling.

Henri Verbeet hverbeet at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 20:39:04 CDT 2018


On 28 September 2018 at 04:02, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Henri Verbeet wrote:
>> I don't necessarily want to block this going in if you really care
>> about this, but I also think the name-change is completely ridiculous.
>
> You mean Apple's decision to change the name or the patch ;-)
>
Apple's decision.

> The thing is that "MacOS X" is a misspelled form of "Mac OS X", the
> former OS name, so my script reports it as a typo[1]. And it is with
> spelling issues as with warnings or test failures: if you let them
> accumulate you soon cannot tell what's new from what's not[2].
>
> So I can either change that to one of the official names or disable this
> specific check for Wine. So even though it's a minor issue I typically
> prefer to just send a patch once in a while. But I can disable this
> check if you prefer.
>
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm fine with this going in, but have
reservations about endorsing it with a Signed-off-by.



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