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| amano (jyaku) wrote Re: Replace mawk with gawk in main | #4 |
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@Thomas Dickey:
Wow, you were fast to find that topic ;)
I didn't want to spread misleading information, so I guess that I misread or misinterpreted my findings and mawk is still developed and maintained by you? Which is great to know. I probably just couldn't find your active development branch. Mind sharing some information about it?
I don't care if Debian/Ubuntu shipped with an updated mawk version (much smaller and faster) but for shellscript compatibility between the likes of say Fedora and Ubuntu a switch to gawk might still be worth considering. Any input would be welcome.
The only thing which is certainly bad is the current situation with a version from 2009 is shipped in main without being maintained by anyone anymore.