[Spec] Namespace MacOS should be macOS

[Suplanus]

Before being to late to the party...

The Namespace System.Maui.ControlGallery.MacOS should be named System.Maui.ControlGallery.macOS.
I am not a big fan of starting a part of the namespace with lower case, but its the official naming of Apple and its also considered at the namespace System.Maui.ControlGallery.iOS.

Difficulty : [low]

[billhenn]

Namespaces in .NET always start with an uppercase letter. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/capitalization-conventions for details.

"MacOS" as the name adheres to that standard, even if the official name of the O/S is "macOS".

[ratijas]

So yeah, back on topic. There are such thing as a code style standard. You either respect it, or you end up with an inconsistent messy codebase. "iOS" case is also highly controversial. Take a look into header files of Cocoa/Foundation — there are tons of macros like MAC_OS_* and IOS_* — despite the marketed product name, code style for macros SHOUTS OUT IN UPPER CASE because that's the way it used to be.

Now, if you going to throw away the coding guidelines for C#, then what's the point of idiomatic wrappers and APIs? How code completion would look like in IDE — imagine having a list of intermixed upper- and lower-cased namespaces, some IDEs sort them by ASCII (uppercase first). Also, what's next — method names with double-colon ":" in their names?

[Inrego]

I guess what @Suplanus is saying, is keep it consistent. If the iOS namespace is called iOS, then macOS namespace should be called macOS. If we insist on having first letter upper case, then the iOS namespace should be IOS.

[billhenn]

That's true, "iOS" doesn't fit the standard conventions either, even though it visually looks much better than the other possible variants that do fit the convention: "IOS" or "Ios".

[Inrego]

I think the reason why you think iOS looks more visually pleasing, is because that's how we're used to seeing it, due to many years of Apple branding it this way.

I do agree that a brand name should be capitalized according to the brand, even when used in namespaces.

But it's not about what I think, or what you think. It's about making a standard and sticking to it.

[ratijas]

"IOS" (capitalized) is actually not that bad. In fact, it is a name of Nintendo Wii's operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_system_software#IOS

[davidortinau]

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[ratijas]

@davidortinau you calling wat?