[swift-corelibs-dev] [xctest] Terminology: What to call "swift-corelibs-xctest" and "Apple XCTest"

Tony Parker anthony.parker at apple.com
Mon Jan 4 14:56:17 CST 2016


We’ve also used “Darwin Foundation” vs “Swift Core Libraries Foundation.”

I’m open to suggestions on this from everyone. I haven’t found a set of terms that I’m really happy with yet.

- Tony

> On Dec 24, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> I believe we have been saying "Corelibs XCTest", but agree it would be nice to have a standard labelling.
> 
> - Daniel
> 
>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Brian Gesiak via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I've been referring to the project hosted at
>> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-xctest as
>> "swift-corelibs-xctest", and the project shipped alongside Xcode 7.2
>> as "Apple XCTest".
>> 
>> What are the canonical names for these projects? I'd like to agree on
>> common terminology to avoid confusion in the future.
>> 
>> Over the past few weeks I've seen several names for
>> https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-xctest:
>> 
>> - Open source XCTest
>> - Swift XCTest
>> - Linux XCTest
>> - swift-corelibs-xctest
>> 
>> And several names for the XCTest framework shipped alongside Xcode:
>> 
>> - Darwin XCTest
>> - Apple XCTest
>> 
>> How do you refer to these projects? What do you think is the simplest
>> way to refer to them, in a way that clearly differentiates them?
>> 
>> Personally, I prefer calling them "swift-corelibs-xctest" and "Apple
>> XCTest", although I do think that "swift-corelibs-xctest" is a
>> mouthful.
>> 
>> - Brian Gesiak
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