What does 'pac' in 'pac cli' stand for?

[ghost]

I know this shouldn't matter, but I'm curious... Everything I can find online (like https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction) refers to "Microsoft Power Platform CLI", but how does 'pac' stand in for 'Microsoft Power Platform'? Is it an acronym for something? Or should I just give up and accept that 'pac' = "Microsoft Power Platform"?

[petrochuk]

Even we are not sure :) I think it started as

Power Apps Command line = pac

but over time expanded to other areas of Power Platform and for obvious compatibility reasons was never renames to MPPCLI

[rajyraman]

I know this shouldn't matter, but I'm curios... Everything I can find online (like [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/developer/cli/introduction]) refers to "Microsoft Power Platform CLI", but how does 'pac' stand in for 'Microsoft Power Platform'? Is it an acronym for something? Or should I just give up and accept that 'pac' = "Microsoft Power Platform"?

It started out as a CLI for building PCF components. https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-powerapps-component-framework-and-the-powerapps-cli-is-now-available-for-public-preview/

Then it transformed into one CLI for everything Power Platform, but exe name stayed the same.

[ghost]

Aha! That link about it starting out with PCFs was helpful... based on that I feel confident declaring that "pac cli" = "Power Apps Component Command Line Interface"