[PATCH/committed] ChangeLog: change Winblowz to Windows
Commit Message
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ChangeLog.11 | 2 +-
ChangeLog.8 | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Comments
OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the
ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that?
Rical
On 10 Aug 2016 19:19, Rical Jasan wrote:
> OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the
> ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that?
the commit speaks for itself. i don't see any problems here -- ChangeLogs
aren't immutable. simply look at their file history to see other fixes.
-mike
On 08/11/2016 12:07 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 10 Aug 2016 19:19, Rical Jasan wrote:
>> OOC, what was the motivation for these changes, especially changing the
>> ChangeLog, which seems like a no-no, and other people's entries at that?
>
> the commit speaks for itself. i don't see any problems here -- ChangeLogs
> aren't immutable. simply look at their file history to see other fixes.
+1
I further support changes like this. We should be an inclusive community
and that means civil behaviour which avoids name calling.
That doesn't mean we should sterilize everything and remove all flavour from
our conversations and commits, but indirectly putting down users that use
Windows or Mac OSX is not nice.
Similarly I don't enjoy bad language in commit messages. The sources
should be clean enough for even young developers to read.
Likewise full sentences and proper grammar :-)
Cheers,
Carlos.
Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> indirectly putting down users that use
> Windows or Mac OSX is not nice
While we're on the topic of terminology, commentary shouldn't call that
operating system "Windows", a name that is too easily confused with the X Window
System and with other windowing systems. This is why the US Patent and Trademark
Office rejected Microsoft's attempt to trademark "Windows".
In GNU Emacs commit messages, we often call the it "MS-Windows", which is short
enough and is clearer than "Windows".
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@
* elf/dl-error.c (_dl_signal_error): Allocate memory for objname
as well. Reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>.
- * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases for Winblowz charsets.
+ * iconvdata/gconv-modules: Add aliases for Windows charsets.
Patch by Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>.
2000-10-13 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@
1998-07-29 12:58 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- * sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Winblowz compatibility stuff.
+ * sysdeps/generic/glob.c: Windows compatibility stuff.
Patch received from Paul D. Smith <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>.
1998-07-29 Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>