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Re: Minimum POSIX standard

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Minimum POSIX standard
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:18:05 -0700
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:52 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My personal opinion is that development should use at least the
> POSIX-1.2001 standard.  It's 20 years old.  That's surely old enough for
> any system still running.  (It's  certainly old enough that any such
> system is not supported by the vendor)

OTOH any system not supported by the vendor is exactly one where
somebody might be trying to build their own zsh binary.

That said, I thought we standardized on c99 rather than c89 quite some time ago.

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