| 1 | This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed
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| 2 | in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is
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| 3 | mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please
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| 4 | don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | With the 3.0 release, we are acknowledging that awk is not PERL, nor should
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| 7 | it become PERL. (To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PERL, you
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| 8 | know where to get it.")
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| 9 |
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| 10 | The focus on the future is thus narrowed to performance and functional
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| 11 | enhancements, with only minor plans for significant new features.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | (OK, so 3.1 had a bad case of feature-itis. I think I'm mostly over it
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| 14 | now, though. :-)
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| 15 |
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| 16 | In 3.1
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| 17 | ======
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| 18 | DONE: A PROCINFO array to replace /dev/pid, /dev/user, et al.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | DONE: Provide awk profiling.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | DONE: Integrate GNU NLS support.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | DONE: Bring out hooks for NLS support into gawk itself.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | DONE: Do a reference card.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | DONE: Switch to full ANSI C and use ansi2kr.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | Additional manual features:
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| 31 | DONE: Document NLS support
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| 32 |
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| 33 | DONE: Add %'d for putting in commas in formatting.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | DONE: Multibyte support for index, length, substr, match.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | For 3.2
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| 38 | =======
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| 39 | Enable \s, \S in regexes (regcomp.c and dfa.c) and document them.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Make POSIX 2001 behavior the default for sub/gsub.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | Simplify awk.h.
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| 44 |
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| 45 | Consider moving var_value info into Node_var itself
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| 46 | to reduce memory usage.
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| 47 |
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| 48 | Add IPv6 support.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | Look at ISO C 99 printf features.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | Consider integrating Fred Fish's DBUG library into gawk.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | Move the loadable modules interface to libtool.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Redo the loadable modules interface from the awk level.
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| 57 |
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| 58 | Rework management of array index storage. (Partially DONE.)
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| 59 |
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| 60 | A RECLEN variable for fixed-length record input. PROCINFO["RS"]
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| 61 | would be "RS" or "RECLEN" depending upon what's in use.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Use a new or improved dfa and/or regex library.
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| 64 |
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| 65 | DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | Additional manual features:
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| 70 | ? Add exercises
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| 71 | Document use of dbm arrays
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| 72 | ? Add an error messages section to the manual
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| 73 |
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| 74 | For 3.3
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| 75 | =======
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| 76 | ? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"]
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| 77 |
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| 78 | Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but
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| 79 | the function did not supply a value.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Additional manual features:
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| 82 | ? A section on where gawk is bounded
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| 83 | regex
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| 84 | i/o
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| 85 | sun fp conversions
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| 86 |
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| 87 | For 3.4
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| 88 | =======
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| 89 | Do an optimization pass over parse tree?
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| 90 |
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| 91 | Make awk '/foo/' files... run at egrep speeds (how?)
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| 92 |
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| 93 | For 4.x:
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| 94 | ========
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| 95 |
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| 96 | Provide awk debugging.
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