foundationkit/FoundationKit

Name collision with Apple's Foundation Kit

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The Foundation Kit is another term for Apple's Foundation framework.

If you read the release docs for Apple/NeXT's EOF 1.0 (1994) (EOF 1 introduced the current NSObject class hierarchy we use today, replacing the Object root class in NeXTSTEP), it refers to Foundation as the Foundation Kit.

Googling 'Apple Foundation Kit' reveals a host of references to Foundation as the Foundation Kit, ranging from university lecture slides to mailing list messages to published books.

This library could reach a wider audience if it had a name distinct from what it isn't, the Foundation Kit.

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apple foundation kit - google search 20130702

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Well observed, but I don't consider this a big issue. Thanks anyways!