Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:50:22 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500 References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I think this is more of an arch issue. > > * Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> [011024 20:53] wrote: > > NOTE: THIS IS A STRAWMAN PROPOSAL! Take it all with a grain of > > salt! > > > For a long while now I've been running with the bwk version of awk > > in preference to the GNU gawk shipped in the base OS. Nothing has ... > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > bawk? Any drawbacks? bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just do the vendor import and cut us over? I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and didn't want to fight that battle. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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