Building without perl

[Ben Lindstrom]

Then we start playing 'Whose awk is the right awk' =)

I think if we do a test for gawk, nawk and then lastly for awk.  And honor
them in that order I think we should be safe.  As long as we don't use any
gawk only features.

However, if we are going to do this.  I'd perfer we either move fully to
an awk solution or stick with perl.  It seems silly to try and maintain
both.  However, the best solution must be used.

As I said.. I'm willing to withhold judgement until the code is test. =)
(I'm no perl fan, so it would make me happy to see us move to awk if it
does not hork anything.)


- Ben


On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Tim Rice wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Ben Lindstrom wrote:
>
> >
> > Ermm.... I'm not sure I want to trust awk over multiple platforms.  It is
> > bad enough that some vendors don't ship a tolerable awk to start with.
>
> The platform would have to be really old to not have at least nawk.
>
> We may want to consider defaulting to perl if it exists and falling back
> to awk if it doesn't. The downside is maintaining 2 versions of mdoc2man.
>
> >
> > Of course I'll reserve judgement until I see it work on every platform
> > without adding 3rd party software.
> >
> > - Ben
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Peter Stuge wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:40:52PM +0200, Roumen.Petrov at skalasoft.com wrote:
> > > > What about "fixprogs" and "mdoc2man.pl" ?
> > >
> > > I'm working on an AWK version of mdoc2man.pl.  It's my first attempt at
> > > programming in AWK but I don't think this can be done very many ways..
> > >
> > > There's a small bug or two that I need to squeeze, then I'll post it for
> > > platform testing.  Currently the AWK script is 282 lines.
> > >
> > >
> > > //Peter
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