Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/pkgtools/pbulk/files/pbulk/scripts

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

 >> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:18:16PM +0000, Tobias Nygren wrote:
 >> > > Log Message:
 >> > > mawk(1) doesn't know how to take length() of an array.
 >> > 
 >> > This is not supposed to be used with mawk, but nbawk. So how did you end
 >> > up there? I strongly dislike this...
 >> 
 >> well, whether joerg likes it or not, pkgsrc should work with any awk
 >> flavour.  we took gawk-isms out in the past to stop the whole
 >> experience being less than satisfactory - the same must be done here.

> It doesn't work with any awk flavour and requiring that is just
> insane.
I believe gawk is good enough for pkgsrc unless some nawk-isms were
introduced during the last few years ;-).

> Take Solaris awk for example.
All awks shipped with Solaris suck.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.awk/msg/b1f188c46ee45910

Maybe HP-UX and SCO have the same problem. I don't know.

 >> i'm fed up with arbitrary restrictions being introduced in the name of
 >> ... well, i'm not sure why they've been introduced.

> I consider mawk quite a bit like dash. It has a lot of small compat
> glitches all over the place and was practically dead for a long time
> too. In this specific case there is an alternative that doesn't add
> random overhead for something I think only some strange Linux
> distributions use.
All this is true for mawk-1.3.3 unmaintained for alamost 15 years but
mawk-1.3.4 released by new maintainer is much, much better, though it
still has some problems that may cause some problems for pkgsrc.

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.