Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:02:08 +0100
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] RFC: Introducing tools-base meta package
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"A. Wilcox" <awilfox@adelielinux.org> wrote:
 |On 02/12/18 03:19, Przemys=C5=82aw Pawe=C5=82czyk wrote:
 |> Hi, Alpiners!
 |>=20
 |> What would you say about introducing new meta packages:
  ...
 |> - mawk
 |>=20
 |> It's "an interpreter for the AWK Programming Language".
 |> It will possibly allow to make some packages depend on it instead of
 |> gawk.
 |>=20
 |> I believe A. Wilcox can share details why it's better than busybox's
 |> awk, after dealing with it in Adelie Linux.
 |
 |
 |mawk has wider compatibility for some awk constructs than BusyBox awk.
 |I am unfortunately not sure exactly which constructs BB doesn't have as
 |I've never looked at the source, and my notes about that are long gone.
 |
 |I can say that Ad=C3=A9lie doesn't even *ship* gawk.  We replaced all
 |references to gawk with mawk locally with no ill effects.  Note we don't
 |ship the entire main and community repos so I am not advocating gawk's
 |removal in Alpine.  I am however advocating replacing it with mawk
 |wherever it makes sense.

mawk does not support IGNORECASE=3D, whereas busybox awk (and gawk)
does.  Last month i tried to implement IGNORECASE=3D for mawk, but
whereas the normal regex case was somewhat easy, the homebrew
regex is too hard and i decided not to look deeper or even offer
Dickey an incomplete patch.

--steffen
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