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After the last day of the June 12-14 Linux Standard Base meeting, several of us got together to discuss the critical problem of application vendors who need a guideline for developing applications that work on Linux distributions available *today* as opposed to when the LSB is complete. During the June 12-14 meeting, we had a number of ISVs who approached us asking for a solution to this problem. We were not able to really address this at the meeting because it was off-topic for the LSB and also for lack of time. So we came up with an interim proposal, the Linux Development Platform Specification (if you can think of a better name, send me an email). It still needs a little work and some review, but it is very simple and we've explicitly avoided a number of difficult issues that just don't rise to a high level of importance. We've also set up an ad hoc committee under the Free Standards Group instead of trying to wedge this into the LSB. The plan is to release a minimal specification as soon as possible so we can start improving the situation for third-party developers. The LDPS committee mailing list is ready and anyone can join up. Sign up at sourceforge.net on http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=6538 or if you are logged into sourceforge via SSL, go to https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=6538 Archives will be available (one update at least every 24 hours), so if you join a little late, there shouldn't be any harm done. Until the subscription list includes most of the distributions and some ISVs, I will repost the specification about once a day to move things forward and I won't complain about answering repeated questions for at least the first few days of the new list. (I'll post the next draft later tonight.) Finally, I'll be posting this notice to the li18nux, lsb-discuss, and fhs-discuss mailing lists. Dan
