Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!pflueger From: pflueger@gmdzi.gmd.de (Clemens Pflueger) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: draft PHIGS C binding Message-ID: <4162@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 28 Feb 91 07:43:34 GMT References: <1734@eru.mt.luth.se> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 32 gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu (Greg Couch) writes: >sow@cad.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg) writes: >>You ask why still draft, how can you >>standardise the c bindings before the c language? It will take 1-2 years >>after the c standard. >Evidently the international standards (ISO) take an additional one to two >years? So here are some more PHIGS-C dates from ISO: In July 90 the DIS text went out for voting and comments. This is the 6 months 'ballot period'. The comments are now discussed and incorporated. On April 17, 1991 there will be a meeting of the ISO group for language bindings for computer graphics standards, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 WG4. They (probably) will accept the final text, or do some minor changes (which will take again some time), and the central ISO secretariat will start publishing the standard (which also will take up to three months). Thus we can expect the ISO PHIGS-C standard to be published by ISO by end of 1991. Clemens Pflueger -- -- Clemens Pflueger, pflueger@gmdzi.gmd.de, (++49 2241) 14-2331 Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) German National Research Centre for Computer Science Schloss Birlinghoven, Postfach 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG