Re: comedi as a POSIX standard

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On Tuesday 08 April 2003 06:28 pm, Steven Jenkins wrote:
> I've been thinking about this for a while, and seeing discussion on
> documentation brought it to the foreground.
>
> It would be quite an achievement for comedi (and open source) to have
> the comedilib API approved as a POSIX standard. The work required is
> non-trivial, but  nothing compared to the work of writing and testing
> the code. It might encourage board manufacturers to release comedi
> drivers with their products.
>
> There's an overview of the IEEE Standards process at
> http://standards.ieee.org/resources/development/index.html.
>
> Any opinions?
>

This seems premature to me.  Comedi hasn't even had a 1.0 release (or better 
yet a 2.0).  Also, there doesn't seem to be any pressing need since there 
aren't any competing, 'almost compatible' implementations I'm aware of.

- -- 
Frank

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Received on 2003-04-10Z02:16:55