From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 17:59: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from buffoon.automagic.org (buffoon.automagic.org [208.185.30.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9ED6E37B403 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 17:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 47001 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Oct 2001 00:59:03 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:59:03 -0400 From: Joe Abley To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: import bawk? Re: NO_AWK Message-ID: <20011025205902.G11022@buffoon.automagic.org> References: <200110250153.f9P1rd0H071528@atg.aciworldwide.com> <20011024211434.G15052@elvis.mu.org> <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011025135022.A80517@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:50:22PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:14:34PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Is bawk a BSD licensed version of awk? What about replacing gawk with > > bawk? Any drawbacks? > > bawk is license friendly for us. I've gotten all the gawk'isms out of > our tree and have run bawk as my system awk for a while. Want me to just > do the vendor import and cut us over? > > I have not done this yet, because I know bawk can be slower than gawk and > didn't want to fight that battle. gawk has features that bawk doesn't have. I write a lot of awk (more than is healthy) and I know I am guilty of using gawkisms. Hence, at the least, a large HEADS UP may be worthwhile ahead of such a change to warn morons like me that their scripts may be about to start breaking. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message