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Seven releases since the last import, so the ChangeLog is quite big; please refer to the NEWS file included in the import for details. Among others, this also addresses PR 23054.
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This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed
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in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is
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mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please
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don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means.
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With the 3.0 release, we are acknowledging that awk is not PERL, nor should
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it become PERL. (To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PERL, you
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know where to get it.")
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The focus on the future is thus narrowed to performance and functional
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enhancements, with only minor plans for significant new features.
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(OK, so 3.1 had a bad case of feature-itis. I think I'm mostly over it
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now, though. :-)
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In 3.1
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DONE: A PROCINFO array to replace /dev/pid, /dev/user, et al.
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DONE: Provide awk profiling.
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DONE: Integrate GNU NLS support.
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DONE: Bring out hooks for NLS support into gawk itself.
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DONE: Do a reference card.
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DONE: Switch to full ANSI C and use ansi2kr.
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Additional manual features:
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DONE: Document NLS support
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DONE: Use a new or improved dfa and/or regex library.
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For 3.2
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Simplify awk.h.
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Consider moving var_value info into Node_var itself
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to reduce memory usage.
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Add IPv6 support.
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Look at ISO C 99 printf features.
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Add %'d for putting in commas in formatting?
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Consider integrating Fred Fish's DBUG library into gawk.
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Move the loadable modules interface to libtool.
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Redo the loadable modules interface from the awk level.
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Rework management of array index storage.
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A RECLEN variable for fixed-length record input. PROCINFO["RS"]
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would be "RS" or "RECLEN" depending upon what's in use.
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DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages.
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Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file.
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Additional manual features:
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? Add exercises
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Document use of dbm arrays
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? Add an error messages section to the manual
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For 3.3
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? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"]
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Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but
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the function did not supply a value.
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Additional manual features:
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? A section on where gawk is bounded
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regex
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i/o
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sun fp conversions
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For 3.4
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Do an optimization pass over parse tree?
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Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds (how?)
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For 4.x:
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Provide awk debugging.
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