i'm watching a bunch of losers who argue before running diff
> You didn't really make a great case for the newer awk, either. Is there a > good reason to use the 2012 release from upstream? If so, you could submit > a diff and explain the benefits. > > On Oct 19, 2017 12:15 AM, "Niels Kobschaetzki" <ni...@kobschaetzki.net> > wrote: > > > > On 19. Oct 2017, at 06:23, flipchan <flipc...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > > Yeah blindly follow the flow of the others , DONT THINK SO > > That doesn=E2=80=99t explain the reasoning WHY the newer awk is not used. > > >> On October 19, 2017 4:25:09 AM GMT+02:00, Andras Farkas < > deepbluemist...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On the 6.2 release page, and confirmed in the source code, one can see > >> The system includes the following major components from outside > >> suppliers: > >> Awk Aug 10, 2011 version > >> This turns out to be one release behind upstream, where the latest > >> release is from December 20 2012: a quick check shows that > >> DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD all use this version. > >> > >> Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why OpenBSD uses the 2011 > >> release? > > Niels
