Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

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

* Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-02-17 09:53]:
> 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.

Probably because it was unmaintained upstream for a long time before
Thomas Dickey adopted it about two years ago.
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Guido Berhoerster
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