Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 17 février 2010, à 00:27 +0100, Guido Berhoerster a écrit :
> 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.

Sounds like a good idea!

Vincent

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