Hi Nicolas,

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:27:08PM -0500, Nicolas Dufour wrote:
> I have a question to the developers of arch :
> 
> Why the base use mawk instead of awk or gawk ? Is it working better ? a 
> bug was found somewhere ?

The reason we use mawk is because it's what we started with in the wee
days of life, and to the best of my knowledge, have never had a problem
with.

I have a gawk package just sittin' around though.  If mawk is indeed
broken somehow, we could switch.  I suppose if new features are still
being added to the awk language, gawk would be the one to pick them up
quicker.


- J


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