diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 3abf7c0..7d0e6e6 100755 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ candidates for this core stability requirement as they change or break their APIs with new releases, along with not being parts of a generic core GNU/Linux install. +This is why, for example, some Bash 4 things that would be nice to have in +inxi are not used, to not break backward compatibility. It is a show stopper +bug if an inxi update breaks something that was working in an old system. + But why gawk instead of awk? That is an issue that has plagued inxi for a long time, the bottom line is this: both bash and awk are such inferior languages overall that the only way to really get them to work in a complex @@ -129,10 +133,6 @@ scenario like inxi is to use the most advanced version of awk possible, which is gnu awk, aka, gawk. Gawk has: case insensitive switches (critical for parsing garbage random system data), gensub (search and replace like sed). -This is why, for example, some Bash 4 things that would be nice to have in -inxi are not used, to not break backward compatibility. It is a show stopper -bug if an inxi update breaks something that was working in an old system. - ===================================================================== BSD SUPPORT