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Aharon Robbins

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Dec 21, 2009, 5:02:03 PM12/21/09
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In an act of end-of-year foolhardiness, I have written up and published
a tentative roadmap for gawk development. See

http://www.skeeve.com/gawk_roadmap.html

Enjoy,

Arnold

P.S. The astute reader will note that there are few actual dates in
the roadmap. That is on purpose. :-)
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jh

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Jan 6, 2010, 10:06:34 PM1/6/10
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http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/html_node/index.html#Top

mentions, in appendix C, the possibility of accessing GDBM via arrays,
offering a simple way to manage persistent key-value pairs. Any
possibility of getting that back in the roadmap?

Regards,
Jim


On Dec 21 2009, 5:02 pm, arn...@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) wrote:
> In an act of end-of-year foolhardiness, I have written up and published
> a tentative roadmap for gawk development. See
>
>        http://www.skeeve.com/gawk_roadmap.html
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Arnold
>
> P.S. The astute reader will note that there are few actual dates in
> the roadmap.  That is on purpose. :-)
> --

> Aharon (Arnold)Robbins                                arnold AT skeeve DOT com

Aharon Robbins

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Jan 8, 2010, 6:01:11 AM1/8/10
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The posted roadmap isn't exclusive of what's in the gawk manual. It's more
an indication of what is most likely to happen in the next year or so.

If someone with good C coding skills would like to take on the "map
array to *DBM file" project I'd be happy to talk to them. I have ideas
as to what I'd like to see happen and how to go about it but I'm happy
to delegate the work to someone willing and able to take it on.

Arnold

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Tim Menzies

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Jan 12, 2010, 8:26:21 AM1/12/10
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On Dec 21 2009, 5:02 pm, arn...@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) wrote:
> In an act of end-of-year foolhardiness, I have written up and published
> a tentative roadmap for gawk development. See
>        http://www.skeeve.com/gawk_roadmap.html

The roadmap does not include indirect functions.

Are they still to be supported.

My vote = yes

Enjoy!
:-)

t

Aharon Robbins

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:05:40 PM1/12/10
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Indirect functions are already integrated into the gawk-devel code base.
The roadmap mainly describes work yet to be done.

If you need indirect functions, check out a copy of the gawk-devel CVS
instead of gawk-stable, then

cd gawk-devel
./bootstrap.sh
./configure && make && make check

The gawk-devel code base is essentially 3.1.7 + some new features (see
the CHANGES) file. At the moment it is at least as stable as 3.1.7.

Arnold

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