- Gnits Standards
The Gnits Standards are a collection of standards and recommendations for programming, maintaining, and distributing
software . They are published by a group ofGNU project maintainers who call themselves "Gnits", which is short for "GNU Nit-pickers". As such, they represent advice, notFree Software Foundation orGNU policy, but parts of the Gnits' standards have seen widespread adoption amongfree software programmers in general.The Gnits Standards are extensions to, refinements of, and annotations for the
GNU Standards . However, they are in no way normative in GNU; GNU maintainers are not required to follow them. Nevertheless, maintainers and programmers often find in Gnits Standards good ideas on the way to follow GNU Standards themselves, as well as tentative, non-official explanations about why some GNU Standards were decided the way they are. There are very few discrepancies between Gnits Standards and GNU Standards, and they are always well noted as such.The Standards address aspects of
software architecture , program behaviour,human–computer interaction , C programming, documentation, andsoftware release s.As of 2008, the Gnits Standards carry a notice that they are moribund and no longer actively maintained, and points readers to the manuals of
Gnulib ,Autoconf , andAutomake , which are said to cover many of the same topics.ee also
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GNU Autotools
*GNU Coding Standards External links
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/womb/gnits/ Gnits Standards]
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