Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[arnold@skeeve.com]

Thanks for the info.

I may pull the iso to take a look.

In any case, for those using BWK's awk, it's worth pulling in the
latest set of changes, they're not huge.

Thanks,

Arnold

hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:

> spew is a 9front user who wanted to improve awk.
>
> there is no separate hg location, branch, etc., awk is in the default
> branch of 9front.
>
> i don't know if he wasted a thought on unix while he was doing that,
> better ask him: he's on #cat-v on freenode regularly.
>
> the 9front distribution .iso contains the complete hg repo with all
> the history, so if you can run our awk, you also have the source and
> the history.
> his efforts started with the regexp library that used to require ape!
> the first related commits i found are:
>
> changeset:   5271:9bf761f83f7e
> branch:      spew
> user:        ben@rana
> date:        Wed Apr 27 07:52:41 2016 -0500
> summary:     remove ape regexp library, add utility for awk native port
>
> changeset:   5269:cad63b966180
> branch:      spew
> parent:      5266:682b1efdef40
> user:        ben@rana
> date:        Tue Apr 26 22:23:44 2016 -0500
> summary:     New libregexp and APE ported to native
>
> replying to list in case others want to understand, too.