svn commit: r40000 - projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:24:01AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:13:49 pm Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> > > Isn't the actual application just "pkg"?  It's unclear to what extent we 
> > > really need to be talking about pkgng using the string "pkgng".
> > > 
> > 
> > The name of the application is pkgng.  The name of the command is pkg.
> 
> This is not a very future proof name.  Do we get pkgngng next, or will it be 
> pkgds9?  I think pkgng is fine for a WIP name, but once it moves to production 
> status it should really just be called 'pkg'.
> 

In my view, the differentation made here can be equated to OpenOffice.
For example, the name of the application (as a whole) is OpenOffice, but
the name of the program for writing a document file is Writer.

We also have things like "syslogng", that has been around forever.

Glen

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