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Re: Gawk 5.4.0 is released

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In article <10rakaa$v391$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 2026-04-10 11:03, Mack The Knife wrote:
>>>>>     "MPFR tests not supported on this system"
>> 
>> This simply means that your version of gawk was compiled without the
>> MPFR and GMP libraries, and so the part of the test suite that tests
>> that feature doesn't bother to run.
>
>[...]
>
>>>> (*) 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.
>> 
>> There are people on the help-gawk list who could have answered
>> this question.
>
>There's obviously also people here (in Usenet) who could have
>answered this question. - Thanks.

Indeed.

(Rambling thoughts follow...)

But I think Mack's take on what I wrote was an implication that I was
asserting that only Arnold could have answered your question.  He (Mack)
was then asserting that there also exist other people who are capable of
answering it - and, thus, that it was sensible to post it to help-gawk
(even if and even though Arnold would not see it).

This asserting is true and valid, but (IMHO) misses the point - at least
the point I (Kenny) was trying to make.  Which is that I see Usenet more as
a personal, one-to-one conversation (initially setup and enabled by the
medium [*]`) rather than as a public bulletin board (in the physical sense
of an actual bulletin board - not in the computer sense of a "BBS").

[*] Which, in fact, acts sort of as a dating service: "We got you two
together; what you do now is on you".

-- 
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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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