Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:46:01 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030626124601.GB57378@iconoplex.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030626122023.GB763@nitro.dk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626122023.GB763@nitro.dk>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:20:27PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > Actually there is. awk is a part of IEEE Std 1003.1, so if we want > FreeBSD to be, or at least as much as possible, a real UNIX it can't be > removed. It is also used quite a bit in the build system, espcially > since perl was removed. Ah. That's that then. Who the hell came up with that idea? Anyway, at the moment the one there is actually gawk. Are there no other=20 implementations knocking around? There must be if it's in the standard. Incidentally, is it a stated goal of the project to conform to IEEE Std=20 1003.1?=20 =20 > > The more I look at that list though, the more of them I think could be= =20 > > pulled out as external packages/ports >=20 > If you are willing to go through all the bikesheding you can try :-). I'll just leave it to somebody else, but it is worth noting that if people= =20 really want the project to be GPL free, with the exception of the compiler,= =20 it's acheivable.=20 --=20 Paul Robinson
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