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Re: Canonical abbreviated name of GNU C Library?
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> On 8/6/2012 12:09 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> If you must abbreviate, "glibc" is the right thing to use. In anything
>> that is more formal or intended to be generally readable by humans, we'd
>> discourage abbreviating.
>>
>
> I probably wrote much of the text that says "GLIBC" and I did so completely
> out of ignorance and not in any way related to a conscious decision to
> capitalize the abbreviated name.
I have checked in an update to the website to use "glibc" everywhere.
2012-08-13 Carlos O'Donell <carlos_odonell@mentor.com>
* bugs.html: Use glibc not GLIBC.
* development.html: Likewise.
* documentation.html: Likewise.
* download.html: Likewise.
* glibc.css: Likewise.
* libc.html: Likewise.
* template.html: Likewise.
* ChangeLog: Likewise.
* img/gnu-head-sm.png: Remove unused.
Cheers,
Carlos.