On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:46 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/11/19 7:12 PM, enh wrote: > >> Yeah but if their implementation's 20 years old and I had the short option > >> name > >> first... > > > > that would be a stronger argument if you were actually going to POSIX > > with this stuff. the trouble is that they _do_... > > Posix removed "tar" and "cpio" from their standard command list over 10 years > ago, in favor of something nobody anywhere uses for anything. What would > telling > them I added something to tar accomplish?
that's so crazy i thought you must be mistaken, but, no: pax is there but tar is gone. but <tar.h> is still there (which was what made me think you must be wrong). > https://landley.net/notes-2016.html#11-03-2016 > > Meanwhile, https://lwn.net/Articles/658809/ kinda took the LSB out of > commission. (Their initial gripe was Red Hat paid them to standardize RPM but > not .deb, and Ubuntu objected hard but couldn't outbid Red Hat.) as far as i could tell lsb was never obviously useful anyway. > I very much want standards, but the standards _bodies_ seem to have idiots > driving. One is seniority uber alles and the other bows to the largest check > and > has since been joined by microsoft. > > Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
