Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 Raul> What I'm envisioning is that you'd take what the standard has
 Raul> to say about, for example, the implemented language, leave that
 Raul> as quoted text and flesh it out with notes about implementation
 Raul> dependent choices and such.  Then you'd toss the more verbose
 Raul> stuff and replace it with something that doesn't need to cover
 Raul> all possibilities.

        You do this, then it is no longer a standard, it is the
 documentation of a particular program. 

 Raul> What you seem to be envisioning is that there's no reason to believe
 Raul> that it's worthwhile to our community for a standard to do this.

        Yes. You hack and maul a standard enough to describe your
 program, then it is your programs docs -- and in no way reflects
 either the standard or my program that also imlpements the
 standard. Or Freds implementation. Or ...

 Raul> Anyways, what I'm proposing is that such works should go into
 Raul> a new section -- one which could be put on cdrom, but whose labeling
 Raul> indicates that they don't meet the same guidelines as main.  I'm
 Raul> not sure what to best call it -- perhaps "verbatim".

        Yes. Things i main are those that meet the DFSG. Things in
 verbatim don't, but they still have to meet the requirements of DFDG
 (no discrimination, freely dostributable, etc, etc)

        manoj
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