Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-20 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:44:22 + brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: Well, as far as I know, mawk has some sort of terrible UTF-8 support, so it's a no way for many applications. Could you please explain? And if you haven't filed a bug report, could you please

Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:45 + brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: I've seen a lot of cases over the years of packages depending on gawk that do not need it. If you only need a standard nawk (new awk), you do not need to depend on gawk. mawk is smaller and faster

Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:59:14AM +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:45 + brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: I've seen a lot of cases over the years of packages depending on gawk that do not need it. If you only need a standard nawk (new awk),

Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-19 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:23:45PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: If your script does require some feature that is not available in mawk or original-awk, you explicitly need to call gawk, since /usr/bin/awk is an alternative and you cannot assume that it will point to gawk. I wonder, would a

Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-18 Thread brian m. carlson
I've seen a lot of cases over the years of packages depending on gawk that do not need it. If you only need a standard nawk (new awk), you do not need to depend on gawk. mawk is smaller and faster and sufficient for almost all needs, and the existence of some awk on the system is guaranteed by