From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 18:20:03 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/5] help: respect new common command grouping Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Eric Sunshine writes: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Eric Sunshine writes: >> >>> The awk script restricts itself to POSIX, and I did test it on Linux, >>> Mac OS X, and FreeBSD, so it seems pretty portable. >> >> I was worried more about some people only having gawk while others >> with mawk and yet others nawk, etc., without having one of them >> under the canonical name "awk". It's nothing what >> >> $ make AWK=mawk >> >> or its config.mak equivalent cannot fix, but still bothers me a bit. > > In that case, perhaps we should go with the Perl version, which, given > that more people (these days) are familiar with Perl than awk, is less > likely to be a maintenance burden. As long as we all can agree that the long-term direction we want to go in is to remove dependency on awk, that's fine by me. That means a small awk scriptlets in t/ and elsewhere need to be rethought, though. Thanks.