Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:47:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk Message-ID: <20011101114723.H79520@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <91831.1004643686@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:41:26PM %2B0200 References: <200111011914.fA1JEGD49043@freefall.freebsd.org> <91831.1004643686@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 09:41:26PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Modified files: > > sys/boot/ficl/softwords softcore.awk > > Log: > > Substitute "[:space:]" with the character constants it expands to. > > This was a silent 'failure' when using Bell-Labs awk. > > David, why are you taking this approach? Why are you worsening the > quality of our awk code [1] instead of ensuring that we have an awk > interpreter that adherers to standards? To get us buildable again. That is 1st priority. And our culture is to try to get the commit to work (and interate on it if needed); rather than back it out. In this case we have had about a day of upheaval. That is not yet to the abusive level. If this goes on much more, I'll back it out. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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