"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As to the specific awk issue, when we made the choice mawk worked better on > more scripts than gawk did. This may have changed in the last 2 years or so > but was still valid when potato came out.
Err, no. Mawk is the default because (since awk is a (virtual) essential package,) it's important that the required/base version be as as small as possible. mawk does _not_ work better on scripts, compared to gawk. mawk is dead upstream and has been for several years; it has several outstanding (non-trivial to fix) bugs that won't be addresses any time soon. gawk on the other hand is actively maintained upstream and has almost no outstanding (non-packaging) bugs I'm aware of. If you're going to feed the trolls, at least feed them well... :-P -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
