Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 03:44:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <200110260144.f9Q1iRA50747@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011025205902.G11022@buffoon.automagic.org>
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Joe Abley wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:50:22PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > 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. > > gawk has features that bawk doesn't have. that may be considered as a problem. you could think you write portable stuffs until you try to use them on another platform. having a "true" awk w/o any extensions may help a lot in god practice. > I write a lot of awk (more than is healthy) and I know I am guilty > of using gawkisms. Hence, at the least, a large HEADS UP may be > worthwhile ahead of such a change to warn morons like me that their > scripts may be about to start breaking. you always have the choice to use gawk from ports... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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