Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 08:29:56 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/awk main.c.diff Message-ID: <20060920042956.GA34474@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060919200652.GC23360@rambler-co.ru> References: <200609151328.k8FDSAGM094520@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060919194959.GA3692@dragon.NUXI.org> <20060919200652.GC23360@rambler-co.ru>
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--a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:06:52AM +0400, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > I'm pretty sure it will be accepted by Brian since another option > already allowed its argument to be specified without a preceding > space,=20 I don't think so. My experience shows that he does not accept fixes=20 easily, f.e. our locale POSIX and GNU awk compatible fixes many people=20 send to him several times already. I can't tell for sure about this change= =20 exactly, but... > and I don't share your argument of "this is BWK awk". I > think it's more important to be POSIX-compliant than BWK-compliant, > even if it means to change vendor code. Of a particular interest > is item 2.c of POSIX's Utility Argument Syntax. I fully agree with that. POSIX compatibility is our primary goal here. We= =20 don't need Another One non-POSIX Private Awk clone by the price of be=20 GNU-free here. BTW, I was among few who dislike GAWK replacement with BAWK, because of=20 poor BAWK POSIX compatibility. Initially it was in even more poor state=20 than now, it is a long story how our fixes was accepted in the one release= =20 and then rejected in the following one afterwards and so on. IMHO I still think that GAWK is more actively developed (I mean betas, not= =20 2002 release, FSF releases are very obsoleted as usual) and have good a=20 chances to become truly multibyte, but we already made our choice long=20 time ago( --=20 http://ache.pp.ru/ --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBRRDDxOJgpPLZnQjrAQKEZgQAmL4Nwdv3kX6Ir643y0AvOhPeZjOHDCnt Y2t5h9W9Af2o1WZzblbh/TOlLM0aXDwwE6eb3RrMUKQlOALAcy/Iylz3AdQi4sqH 1eyXSVASNEHWrt3CPDDk+ZyzDM5DOG6jHGjqMUqKldlRD30EErdXUrFOJp5zddV4 TruMWBnrgy8= =O9/W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C--
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