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Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released

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On 2026-04-09 19:39, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <10nftdb$jlmj$1@dont-email.me>,
> Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2026-02-22 19:58, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>>> Greetings all.
>>>
>>> This note announces the next release of GNU Awk: version 5.4.0.
>>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I'm not sure I'm remembering any "make check" messages from the
>> past but this time I see on my current Linux system, for example,
>>    "gawk is not compiled to support the array debug tests"
>> and
>>    "MPFR tests not supported on this system"

> I assume you never got any response on this.  Are you still interested in it?

"Only marginally." ;-)

> I am to tell you that Arnold has stated that he no longer reads this group
> (that is, he only posts GAWK new version announcements, but otherwise does
> not read or post to the Usenet newsgroup) (*).

Yeah, I remember. Sometimes, probably in (more) important cases,
he got hints in the past and then (occasionally?) looked into it.

> I believe that Andrew (the other active GAWK dev) does sometimes (rarely)
> read here, but I would not count on it.

Very strange, given that this is the relevant Usenet newsgroup of
this tool and programming language.

If it's not important for those guys it's even less important for
me. :-)

> If you want Arnold's attention, you will need to posts to one of the GAWK
> mailing lists on http://lists.gnu.org

Not really. If there's anything (for me) more noteworthy I could
also email him. But here it's obviously meaningless.

> HTH

Thanks for your concern. Appreciated.

Janis

> 
> (*) In fact, he has also stated that he does not read the "help-gawk" list
> either, so you will need to post to specifically bug-gawk.

Last thing I've seen him writing was his mentioning that he recently
is busy with studying the Torah - I think it's something of similar
importance as the Koran, just another religion. So his interests may
also have changed or got another value, other priorities in his life.

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Gawk 5.4.0 is released arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2026-02-22 18:58 +0000
  Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-02-22 22:45 +0100
    Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-09 17:39 +0000
      Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-09 23:39 +0200
        Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2026-04-10 09:03 +0000
          Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-10 12:44 +0200
            Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-17 11:44 +0000

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