That's not what i'm saying, Keld. This is handled in just the same way it
always was. Look at a copy of ISO 9945-1. Everywhere you see the phrase
9945-1 it said IEEE 1003.1 when it was a draft. This is purely a
typographical convention during the draft stages of the document. When it is
approved by one or more bodies, it will have the appropriate words in that
spot.
W.r.t. #! ... it's not in our scope (which is limited to what is already
published). If you want to add it to our scope, you should make a formal
proposal to do so, probably through your OR (me). I am happy to lead a
discussion of this in the WG15 mailing list, and if there is general
agreement from there to raise it at the next Austin Group meeting as
something we need to vote on. I don't know if we have a defined process for
this yet, so we are probably blazing a path for the first time, and we'll
have to get rules made as we go!
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Nick Stoughton
Webvan Group Inc Usenix Standards Liaison
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keld Jørn Simonsen [mailto:yyyy@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:44 PM
> To: Nick Stoughton
> Cc: 'Andrew Josey'; 'yyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: Re: Teleconference Minutes from 16th December 1999
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 05:05:16PM -0800, Nick Stoughton wrote:
> > There is a macro that drops in the correct wording here
> (\*(St as I recall);
> > It is replaced by the highest level approving body. When
> the document is an
> > approved ISO standard, this string magically becomes "this
> part of ISO/IEC
> > 9945".
>
> Well, I thought we would have one and the same document for
> publication.
> Including references to itself. Then we could not have IEEE
> in one, TOG in
> the other and ISO in the third version.
>
> > On your second question you have a good point, though the
> "#!" stuff is not
> > a part of the spec. Therefore, a perl script (or any other
> script) is not a
> > portable utility and is therefore out of scope; by this
> definition they are
> > not utilities. There is no mechanism in the standard to
> support any type of
> > utility that is not either a binary or shell script.
>
> Everybody supports #! - why not standardize it?
>
> Keld
>
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