LSB naming

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Sun Aug 1 00:28:00 GMT 2004


On Jul 31, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Sul, 2004-08-01 at 01:05, Nathan Myers wrote:
>> It would be much more apt to call this thing the GSB, GNU Standard 
>> Base.
>
> The LSB is theoretically implementable without GNU components as well.
> One of the goals is that you should be able to sit down with an army of
> programmers and write an LSB compliant system from scratch. It should 
> be
> sufficiently well documented for this to work.
>
> That in essence is much of the original naming question.


I don't care about what the name of LSB/GSB/SB should be (note I like 
OSSB
operating system standard base).  This is way offtopic from gcc 
development.
And if you want an official answer about GCC and OSSB talk to RMS as he 
is the
one who runs the GNU project and he already talked against it.

-- Pinski



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