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harmony
harmony01 at riseup.net
Mon Dec 16 00:07:49 UTC 2013
Lunar:
> Lunar:
>> harmony:
>>> Lunar:
>>>> ===========================================================================
>>>> === https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorWeeklyNews/2013/24 ===
>>>> ===========================================================================
>>>>
>>>> version 13
>>>> Author: harmony
>>>> Date: 2013-12-12T22:50:20+00:00
>>>
>>>
>>> At the risk of being stripped of all contributorial rights, can someone
>>> explain the basic difference between big-T and little-t Tor? I thought I
>>> understood it but it turns out I don't.
>>
>> I'm not sure we are all consistent throughout the project, but, my own
>> take is:
>>
>> * The Tor Project, Inc.
>> * The Tor network
>> * The tor daemon
>>
>> At least, several folks refer to the tor daemon (the piece of C code) as
>> “little-t tor”.
>
> Some clarifications from Roger:
>
> <armadev> tor is a socks proxy that people run
> <armadev> Tor is a project to save the world
> <Lunar^> armadev: your announcement used Tor with capital T, which is
> the source of harmony's confusion AFAIK
> <armadev> yeah, hm. i think it's fine to capitalize Tor the program
> <armadev> it's just that when you're actually running it, you
> <armadev> so the closer you are to talking about running a program, the
> more likely you don't capitalize it
> <Lunar^> armadev: ok, thanks for the clarification… not an easy rule to
> follow though
> <armadev> yep
> <armadev> maybe it is easier to think that the Tor 0.2.4.19 release
> includes several programs, like tor, tor-resolve, etc
>
Thanks for clearing that up. I think in future I'll just follow the
standard that people use in their announcements (within reason).
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