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@ -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.
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