STANDARDS, VERSIONS, HISTORY

STANDARDS, VERSIONS, HISTORY

[Alejandro Colomar]

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Hi!

I rewrote these sections.  That's the reason I'm being slowish in
replying to email, and now I'll be checking old mail for some time, so
I may still take some time to review some mails.  Sorry; I hope you
find it worthy :)

Please comment on this recent patch (currently the commit at HEAD) if
there's anything you'd like to improve.  It's a huge one, so reviewing
it would be crazy, but feel free to comment on anything you don't like
about these sections now that I changed them.

TL;DR:

STANDARDS now almost only covers C11 and POSIX.1-2008.  Everything
older goes to HISTORY.  Soon (as soon as the new standards are
published, so one year or so), STANDARDS will only cover C23 and
POSIX.1-202x (2023?), and C11 and POSIX.1-2008 will be moved to
HISTORY.

VERSIONS mostly covers variants of an API in different systems, or
different APIs that provide the same functionality (less often).

Cheers,
Alex

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Re: STANDARDS, VERSIONS, HISTORY

[Alejandro Colomar]

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On 3/31/23 21:44, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I rewrote these sections.  That's the reason I'm being slowish in
> replying to email, and now I'll be checking old mail for some time, so
> I may still take some time to review some mails.  Sorry; I hope you
> find it worthy :)
> 
> Please comment on this recent patch (currently the commit at HEAD) if
> there's anything you'd like to improve.  It's a huge one, so reviewing
> it would be crazy, but feel free to comment on anything you don't like
> about these sections now that I changed them.
> 
> TL;DR:
> 
> STANDARDS now almost only covers C11 and POSIX.1-2008.  Everything
> older goes to HISTORY.  Soon (as soon as the new standards are
> published, so one year or so), STANDARDS will only cover C23 and
> POSIX.1-202x (2023?), and C11 and POSIX.1-2008 will be moved to
> HISTORY.

Also, the wording in these sections has been made consistent, and in
most cases, there's even no wording, but rather a list of standards or
systems in which an API is defined.

> 
> VERSIONS mostly covers variants of an API in different systems, or
> different APIs that provide the same functionality (less often).
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 

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