Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensuse.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to propose the inclusion of mawk into Factory as an
alternative to gawk.  This requires two changes, gawk
would need to support update-alternatives and mawk would
need to be added to Factory.
My rationale is that mawk is significantly faster than gawk, that
it is (almost, still WIP) POSIX.2 compliant and supports only few
extensions, which allows for testing and ensuring the portability
of scripts.
There should be no side effects, mawk would remain an optional
package and have a lower update-alternatives priority than gawk.
Even if installed manually gawk would remain the default awk,
only through manually calling update-alternatives mawk could
permanently become the default.
mawk is currently in Contrib, I have prepared two branches with
the required changes and tested the resulting packages but I'd
like to hear if there are any objections or suggestions before
sending a sr.

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Guido Berhoerster
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