You didn't really make a great case for the newer awk, either. Is there a
good reason to use the 2012 release from upstream? If so, you could submit
a diff and explain the benefits.

On Oct 19, 2017 12:15 AM, "Niels Kobschaetzki" <ni...@kobschaetzki.net>
wrote:


> On 19. Oct 2017, at 06:23, flipchan <flipc...@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Yeah blindly follow the flow of the others , DONT THINK SO

That doesn’t explain the reasoning WHY the newer awk is not used.

>> On October 19, 2017 4:25:09 AM GMT+02:00, Andras Farkas <
deepbluemist...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On the 6.2 release page, and confirmed in the source code, one can see
>> The system includes the following major components from outside
>> suppliers:
>> Awk Aug 10, 2011 version
>> This turns out to be one release behind upstream, where the latest
>> release is from December 20 2012: a quick check shows that
>> DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD all use this version.
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why OpenBSD uses the 2011
>> release?

Niels

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