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The LSB Delivers Again

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-your-base dept.

gk4 writes "The LSB has updated and published the gLSB v1.1 draft for review. The LSB has also published for review the new psLSB for IA32 v1.1 draft and the completed LSB v1.0.1 Test Suites. Review ends Friday January 4th; however, the LSB welcomes comments from the community at any time."

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  1. Re:LSB is not a standard by Arandir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By that logic the GNU tar maintainer shouldn't have included the -z flag either because you could always pipe the output from tar through gzip.

    You completely missed the point. Standards need to be lowest common denominator. Having a -z flag in GNU tar is damn useful. But it should not be the standard.

    There are standards for most Unix utilities, and those standards should have been used instead of the mandating the GNU extensions.

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  2. Re:"L" is the problem by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Standardizing Unix has been tried; the results were things like POSIX and the Single Unix Spec. They cost millions to develop and didn't completely solve the portability problem. Why try again?