[9fans] updating awk ...

[9fans] updating awk ...

[Arnold Robbins]

Hi.

A few years ago Erik synced the Plan 9 awk with Brian Kernighan's.

I have recently gotten BWK to fix some long-standing bugs. His code
is updated and available at https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk.

If "someone" wants to pull in his changes, now's a good time to
do so. :-)

Thanks,

Arnold

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[hiro]

also check out spew's awk, it's native in 9front.

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[hiro]

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.

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[arnold]

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.

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[Benjamin Purcell]

Spew here. I only made minimal changes to 9front awk to convert it to
a native application (this allowed 9front to remove the regexp library
that was duplicated in APE). Arnold: thanks for the information on the
awk improvements. I will look at them and merge them into 9front when
I have time.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:31 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[Kurt H Maier]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:40:21AM -0400, Benjamin Purcell wrote:
> Spew here. I only made minimal changes to 9front awk to convert it to

On the topic of awk, a while ago Paul A. Patience did some work to
the awk in Boyd's contrib, so people interested in a native awk have
options these days.  Paul has moved on to other work, but I kept a copy
of his repo, which is available at http://code.9front.org/hg/awk/

khm

Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[Pumba The Pig]

Sent from my iPad

> On 29 Aug 2018, at 17:55, Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:40:21AM -0400, Benjamin Purcell wrote:
>> Spew here. I only made minimal changes to 9front awk to convert it to
>
> On the topic of awk, a while ago Paul A. Patience did some work to
> the awk in Boyd's contrib, so people interested in a native awk have
> options these days.  Paul has moved on to other work, but I kept a copy
> of his repo, which is available at http://code.9front.org/hg/awk/
>
> khm
>