From: Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ports tree for Plan 9
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 16:32:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B62C0337-B26E-48D4-91EA-C23B9E4F8F3A@9front.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9643241aee7d4ffd7efb6765c65c7d0c@brasstown.quanstro.net>
On May 30, 2015, at 11:54 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>> I would very much like to see this fast and conformant, so that APE
>> awk can be thrown in the trash.
>
> i don't understand this. awk is bwk's ota source, with some minor tweaks to fit the
> environment. it works well, and allows portable awk to be written. can you
> explain what is to be gained by a re do? i don't think "doesn't use ape" per ce
> is a good argument. it would have to be explained what this enables. i can't see
> that part.
>
> - erik
if i understood correctly, the major reasons were better unicode handling and not using sh for system().
sl
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2015-05-12 5:45 mveety
2015-05-12 10:26 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-14 7:05 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-14 8:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 10:42 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-14 10:47 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 10:52 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 11:10 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-14 11:49 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-14 11:59 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 12:13 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 12:36 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 11:50 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-14 13:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2015-05-14 14:37 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-15 4:43 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-15 5:21 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-15 5:53 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-15 7:08 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-18 15:57 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-27 19:49 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-29 21:01 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-29 21:12 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-30 5:11 ` lucio
2015-05-30 5:57 ` Álvaro Jurado
2015-05-30 6:36 ` lucio
2015-05-30 6:13 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-30 6:39 ` lucio
2015-05-30 6:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-30 7:04 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-30 8:36 ` lucio
2015-05-30 15:54 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-30 16:17 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-30 16:27 ` Jeff Sickel
2015-05-30 20:30 ` Stanley Lieber
2015-05-30 20:32 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2015-05-31 0:16 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-31 3:04 ` arnold
2015-05-31 4:40 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-31 4:55 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-31 5:01 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-31 5:17 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-05-31 14:00 ` arnold
2015-05-31 14:12 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-31 5:08 ` lucio
2015-05-31 14:03 ` arnold
2015-05-30 7:21 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-30 8:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-05-30 8:35 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-30 8:41 ` lucio
2015-05-30 15:57 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-29 21:25 ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-30 3:02 ` erik quanstrom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-31 0:41 sl
2015-05-15 4:49 mveety
2015-05-12 2:02 mveety
2015-05-12 4:16 ` Jens Staal
2015-05-12 6:19 ` Ori Bernstein
2015-05-14 1:03 ` Adrian Regenfuss
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