Re: update lang/gawk

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 07:57:22PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:13:13 +0900, Sergey Litvinov 
>> <slitvinov%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> >-DISTNAME=  gawk-3.1.8
>> >-PKGREVISION=       1
>> >+DISTNAME=  gawk-4.0.0
>> >+PKGREVISION=       126
>> 
>> too aggressive PKGREVISION :)
>
> gawk 4.0 has quite some new features. I do not know whether they have
> stated anything about backward compatibility. Also, a user would need to
> be conscious about portability of his/her work on older gawk versions.
>
> I think, it's a mini-version of problem faced with python versions.
>
> How about new package gawk4?

He meant that PKGREVISION should be just removed rather than set to some
random value. :)


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