Re: RFC gawk update

[ibotty <me@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> What's wrong with the awk one in the base system? gawk should be part of
> package; not in the base system since we already have one. No need to add
> the more of junk in the base system when most of people are trying to get
> rid of junk and turn them into package.
> 
> BTW: Last time I checked, awk is faster, smaller and has lesser bugs than
> gawk.

correct me if im wrong, but...
first of all, our (bsdl) awk is built as nawk, gawk is build as awk.

so we allready do have gawk in base, so i see no point in not updating it.

nevertheless, i dont know, whether nawk is worse than gawk...
if both are posix compliant, we could remove gawk.

~ibotty