> Btw, what did you mean by blow process? Arnold is one of the most > conservative maintainers i've seen in the gnu.
$ pwd /usr/src/gawk-4.1.1+dfsg $ wc -l *.[chy] | grep total 61385 total $ pwd /usr/src/awk $ wc -l *.[chy] | grep total 6442 total You have to think this is suckless community, where we think the most important point is the simplicity, and some projects are incredible small, dwm has a limit of 2000 lines, st is only 3800 lines or surf is only 1500. We are reimplementating all the UNIX basic tools in sbase to avoid these bloated versions. >From our point of view an implementation of awk with 60000 lines is a really horrible implementation, and it is one of the next candidates for sbase. -- Roberto E. Vargas Caballero