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Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: "conformance" vs. compatibility
Date: 04 Nov 2003 17:47:14 -0800
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address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> I think it ought to be possible for the user building coreutils to say
> what version of conformance they want - say, with a ./configure
> argument - and this should override the unistd.h definition.

That might be reasonable.  The coreutils maintainer should have the
final say about this, though.  He's probably tired of the whole
subject, though, so I suspect he won't make this change unless someone
proposes a nice patch to do it.

Your other arguments about whether long-option syntax like "--foo" is
conforming are not that convincing.  At any rate they were settled
long ago, I suspect, when RMS proposed the current long-option syntax
to conform to POSIX as a pure extension, replacing the old long-option
syntax.  Personally I'd rather not reopen that can of worms; life is
too short!




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