Re: Coordination on standardizing gettext() in future POSIX

[Bruno Haible]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Do you really like to require SunOS to loose backwads incompatiblity?
>
> Overly dramatic.  You just need one mode that is POSIX compatible. Many GNU
> tools use POSIXLY_CORRECT_

The Solaris practice for keeping backward compatibility despite new evolutions
of the standards is to use /usr/xpg[457] directories. For example:
  /usr/xpg4/bin/sh      != /usr/bin/sh
  /usr/xpg6/bin/ls      != /usr/bin/ls
  /usr/xpg7/bin/getconf != /usr/bin/getconf

There could be a /usr/xpg8/bin/gettext if POSIX gettext(1) ends up specifying
a different behaviour than the current Solaris implementation has.

Bruno