[PATCH] Replace mkproto.pl with mkproto.awk

Ethan Sommer e5ten.arch at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 02:08:16 UTC 2019


> Me? I think, the rsync maintainers, or?
> I just added my 2 cents and would stick with .pl, it has proven to be
> stable :) (Yes, I'm a Perl user.)
Meant to direct that towards the rsync maintainers sorry. Are you
suggesting that something that works with all popular awk
implementations and entirely conforms to the POSIX standard now would
somehow not be stable, or would eventually stop working, as if awk is a
moving target?



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