From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <201808280718.w7S7IaET006077@freefriends.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 01:18:35 -0600 To: 9fans@9fans.net, 23hiro@gmail.com References: <201808271843.w7RIhX7h002862@skeeve.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] updating awk ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: de6110c8-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.