Is "MacPort" a valid term?

[Zav Public]

What are these ports?  What do they constitute?  Is there a term that  
can define them?

If so, then I propose Mac-whatever-ports where whatever is the term  
that most appropriately describes what they would be and could be  
understandable by the layperson.

Something palatable, steering away from the GNU practice of "the  
abbreviation is part of the name" which leads to strangeness in  
project names.  Really, it does.

If these are open source ports and they were last time I checked,  
then we may have:

Open source Mac Ports

The Open Source MacPorts Project.

Open Source Ports for the Mac.

Mac Open Source Ports.

Open Mac Ports.

MacPorts OpenSource.

And so on.

Cheers
- Zav


On Jun 24, 2008, at 8:15 PM, Kendall Shaw wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:43 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:51 PM, markd at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> So are you saying that you think "MacPort" is a valid term?  I was
>>> thinking it wasn't an accepted and/or used term.  If folks think it
>>> is, I
>>> can stop flipping between using "MacPorts port" (mostly in intro
>>> parts)
>>> and "port" in the docs.  It's not a really big deal though, except
>>> just to
>>> settle if the term "MacPort" is considered invalid usage or not.
>>
>> I'm not saying it's invalid, how about that? :-)
>>
>> Ultimately, I think it's like a nickname.  You generally don't get to
>> pick your own nickname and, whether you like it or not, once you have
>> one it sticks to you like glue for the rest of your life.
>>
>> We're still just in that awkward phase where nobody has found a
>> nickname that really applies to the extent where everyone goes "Yes!
>> That's it!" and then continues to use that name regardless of what  
>> the
>> Powers That Be attempt to call it.
>
> How about: Mmmm... port?
>
>
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