Re: [9fans] updating awk ...

[Benjamin Purcell <benjapurcell@gmail.com>]

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.
>