Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010 schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
> 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.

That sounds very fine - the funny thing is that mawk was dropped 2002
from SUSE Linux, but I have no idea about the background.

Greetings, Stephan
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