Timeline for What should the tag for the new Windows 8 runtime be?
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Sep 14, 2011 at 22:34 | comment | added | Pavel Minaev | Most people who worked with it so far know it as WinRT, and it's also what's used in the source code and thereabouts - e.g. header files for it in Developer Preview are in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Include\winrt\", and the most fundamental one is called "winrt.h". Users on MSDN forums also seem to be mostly using "WinRT". I'd suggest sticking to that, especially as it is a fairly unique label that is also convenient for search engines and such. | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:59 | comment | added | user1228 | @RobertHarvey: Well, WinRt, but tags don't support capitalization... | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:34 | comment | added | user102937 | winrt is a "proper" name, like "John." | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:32 | comment | added | user154510 |
@John winrt may be unclear to those unfamiliar with it, but it's not ambiguous because other Windows runtimes aren't referred to as "winrt".
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Sep 14, 2011 at 15:26 | comment | added | John | @Robert windows-8-runtime I understand, but I fail to see how winrt is less ambiguous than windows-runtime. | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:17 | comment | added | user102937 | windows-runtime is far too ambiguous. There are many such runtimes (i.e. any runtime that executes in a Windows environment). It should probably be either windows-8-runtime or winrt | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:15 | comment | added | John | The average user of SO. | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:11 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | We don't care about the "average user" as SO is a programmer's site. | |
Sep 14, 2011 at 15:03 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |