From Jim.Isaak@digital.com Mon Sep 22 17:18:58 1997 Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA18684 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:18:43 +0200 Received: from cst.ako.dec.com (cst.ako.dec.com [16.151.72.40]) by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) with ESMTP id LAA28647 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by cst.ako.dec.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:06:54 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jim Isaak To: a WG15 Subject: WG15 Ada POSIX Language Bindings Project Editor Report, Sept. 97 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:06:49 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22/WG 15 TITLE: POSIX Language Bindings Project Editor Report SOURCE: Ted Baker, Project Editor for POSIX Language Bindings baker@dad.cs.fsu.edu The IEEE is conducting reaffirmation ballots for IEEE STD 1003.9 (Fortran binding to 1003.1) and IEEE STD 1003.5 (Ada binding to 1003.1). The reaffirmation ballot for 1003.5 is being combined with reaffirmation of IEEE STD 1003.5b-1996, so that the combined document will be in sync. IEEE STD 1003.5-1992, which corresponds to SC22 NP 22.21.04.02, was balloted in JTC1 as ISO/IEC DIS 14519-1 under the fast-track procedure, starting back in 1993. The ballot was completed, but the standard was never published by ISO. (I don't know why.) The combined document IEEE STD 1003.5-1992 as amended by IEEE STD 1003.5b-1996 -- the same document that is going through IEEE reaffirmation ballot -- is now being submitted for fast-track ballot in JTC1, as DIS 14519. There are several Ada language binding projects in the IEEE that do not have corresponding SC22 work items. These include: 1003.5c -- Ada binding for 1003.5g (Protocol-Independent Interfaces) This is about to start a second round of IEEE ballot. 1003.5f -- Ada binding for 1003.21 (Real-Time Distributed Sys. Comm) This is being drafted. 1003.24 -- Ada binding: X Window Modular Toolkit This is being drafted. If there is sufficient international interest, perhaps one or more of these should be considered. All of the Ada binding documents, as well as the IEEE 1003.21 document, are in LaTeX source format, and are processed by the LaTeX2e toolset to produce PostScript output. Theredore, the new SC22 rules about document formats may present a problem for these documents, unless it is possible to convert the PostScript output to PDF.