Hi Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:32:30AM +0000: > Branden Robinson wrote:
>> I don't mind limiting ourselves to portable POSIX sh > For some version of POSIX. :-) For some standards, clarifying which one you want to follow can be a tough problem (e.g. CSS, anyone?). But POSIX is actually unusually benign in this respect. POSIX 2008 is still in force and widely adopted (though of course, many commercial UNIXes still implement POSIX 2001, but i doubt that's relevant in the present context). In a few years, there will probably be a new POSIX standard, and at some point, it might make sense to follow that one. Changes are not likely to be disruptive either, maybe not even large. A standard that updates in relatively small steps about once a decade is really convenient to work with and causes relatively little versioning hassle. Yours, Ingo
