Canonical abbreviated name of GNU C Library?

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hi!

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 14:14:58 +0200, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may seem trivial, but there's various places where I end up
> writing about the GNU C Library project, and a question that
> constantly niggles is this: what is the / is there an agreed canonical
> short for name for the project and the library?
> 
> That is, which of the following is considered to be correct:
> glibc

That's the one, for all I know.

> GLIBC
> Glibc (seems little used)
> ?
> 
> I've usually settled on the first, and it seems to be the most common.
> However, http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/HomePage says:
> 
>     The official and canonical GLIBC website is
>      http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
> 
> And on that page, "GLIBC" is used. Except, not throughout the page
> (there is also "glibc" on that page), and not at all on the related
> page http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/development.html. On the wiki,
> "glibc" seems by far predominant.

Other uses apart from glibc should be corrected.


Grüße,
 Thomas
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