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| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2015-10-29 03:11:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> | 2015-10-29 03:11:10 -0500 |
| commit | c815d59f80ebb5cf377e7e87e44c340d9b103132 (patch) | |
| tree | 651b3ccd20a8d38a832a9535c729916c6a7caa78 /www/roadmap.html | |
| parent | 8132ad2f4ec9b463ed954a302e9e490b549b106a (diff) | |
| download | toybox-c815d59f80ebb5cf377e7e87e44c340d9b103132.tar.gz | |
Note Debian abandoning LSB and our own decision not to worry about LSB 5.0 yet.
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diff --git a/www/roadmap.html b/www/roadmap.html index 0ac70b76..34fbe148 100755 --- a/www/roadmap.html +++ b/www/roadmap.html @@ -119,16 +119,28 @@ fairly low.</p> <p>POSIX allowed its standards process to be compromised by leaving things out, thus allowing IBM mainframes and Windows NT to drive a truck through the holes and declare themselves compilant. But it means what -they DID standardize tends to be respected.</p> +they DID standardize tends to be respected (if sometimes obsolete).</p> <p>The Linux Standard Base's failure mode is different, they respond to pressure by including special-case crap, such as allowing Red Hat to shoehorn -RPM on the standard even though all sorts of distros (Debian, Slackware, Arch, +RPM into the standard even though all sorts of distros (Debian, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo) don't use it and probably never will. This means anything in the LSB is at best a suggestion: arbitrary portions of this standard are widely ignored.</p> -<p>The LSB does specify a <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/cmdbehav.html>list of command line +<p>The community perception seems to be that the Linux Standard Base is +the best standard money can buy, I.E. the Linux Foundation is supported by +financial donations form large companies and the LSB represents the interests +of those donors more than technical merit. Debian officially +<a href=http://lwn.net/Articles/658809>washed its hands of LSB</a> when 5.0 +came out in 2015, and no longer even pretends to support it (which may affect +Debian derivatives like Ubuntu and Knoppix). Toybox hasn't moved to 5.0 for +similar reasons.</p> + +<p>That said, Posix by itself isn't enough, and this is the next most +comprehensive standards effort for Linux so far.</p> + +<p>The LSB specifies a <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/cmdbehav.html>list of command line utilities</a>:</p> <blockquote><b> |