RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Paul Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:20:27PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> Actually there is. awk is a part of IEEE Std 1003.1, so if we want
> FreeBSD to be, or at least as much as possible, a real UNIX it can't be
> removed.  It is also used quite a bit in the build system, espcially
> since perl was removed.

Ah. That's that then. Who the hell came up with that idea?

Anyway, at the moment the one there is actually gawk. Are there no other 
implementations knocking around? There must be if it's in the standard.

Incidentally, is it a stated goal of the project to conform to IEEE Std 
1003.1? 
 
> > The more I look at that list though, the more of them I think could be 
> > pulled out as external packages/ports
> 
> If you are willing to go through all the bikesheding you can try :-).

I'll just leave it to somebody else, but it is worth noting that if people 
really want the project to be GPL free, with the exception of the compiler, 
it's acheivable. 

-- 
Paul Robinson