Re: GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies

[John Gardner]

> 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 <address@hidden> 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
>
>