From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul Beskeen" To: "Jim Kingdon" , Cc: Subject: Re: Cooperation between EL/IX and LSB Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:07:00 -0000 Message-id: <00fe01bf6a9c$9be3c020$f8f3fea9@cerberus> References: <200001271848.NAA02772@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00009.html > In the Linux Standard Base (LSB) we have often wished there were a bit > more coordination between EL/IX and the LSB > ( http://www.linuxbase.org/ ) since after all the EL/IX level 4 API is > probably pretty much synonymous with the LSB API (the efforts are not > quite the same, for one thing the LSB also is working on an ABI, > anyway, the point is there is overlap not that we're identical). Seems like a good idea. We would be happy to work with the LSB to ensure compatibility between EL/IX and the LSB spec. As an initial step we will examine the possibility of formalizing the LSB as the definition of EL/IX level 4. > * If EL/IX would be interested in adding a link from the EL/IX web > site to linuxbase.org, that would be great. No problem. > * Linuxbase.org is currently a distributed (that is, support from many > vendors) effort that maintains our specification via CVS - see > http://www.linuxbase.org/devel.html > > We would like to ask whether EL/IX would be interested in > maintaining the EL/IX specification in the same way. In particular, > the LSB spec is maintained in a combination of > MySQL/DocBook/makefiles which, although somewhat complicated, makes > it easy to add additional columns for "included in EL/IX level 1"? > "included in EL/IX level 2"? And so on. It already has columns for > Single Unix Spec, POSIX, &c. Ok, we will take a look and see how this might work. The EL/IX std has more complexity with regard to options, but should be able to find ways of handling this. Cheers, Paul.