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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:05:13 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/one-true-awk - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <20020227200513.B20718@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpvgci8g2t.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:01:46AM %2B0100
References:  <200202190935.g1J9ZQg95683@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020227101410.B71097@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpd6yqa50a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020227175336.A13894@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpvgci8g2t.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 04:01:46AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > And every AWK script we have in the base system now works with BWK AWK??
> > When we gave up last time, it was more than just the character classes
> > that gave problems.  Remember we converted all the [[:space:]] type
> > expressions to older RE's we still had problems.
> 
> The only outstanding problem I know of is empty regexps (we have one
> instance in kmod_syms.awk).  I have a patch for this, and have
> submitted it to bwk.

Can you post the patch?

> > I wanted you to let me know before you proceeded.  I was the driving
> > force behind it you know.
> 
> I'm not stealing your baby, David.  Go get some rest.

Blah.  My concern is that we don't commit and make people CVSup this and
get hopes up if BWK awk still is not able to replace Gawk.

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