On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote: > "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 >
as I said, two years ago I found that random awk scripts worked better with mawk than gawk, this has likely changed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]