> For some standards, clarifying which one you want to follow can > be a tough problem (e.g. CSS, anyone?)
CSS isn't one standard, but a family of standards <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work>. Each of which has varying levels of maturity, and only those that are listed as "Recommendation" can be thought of as officially "standardised". Apples to oranges, I know, but I felt compelled to point that out. On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 22:55, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > 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 > >
