Mastodawn

I have been trying my hardest from keeping python out of the dependencies of gcc. Newer
Folks know python more than awk or shell it seems. Awk itself is a very powerful language. Especially when it comes to text processing. Even posix awk has stuff like array indexed by strings.

Right now all of the files generated by python are checked into the repo (a file which then get processed by awk anyways). I am hoping to keep it that way.

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2rad0

@pinskia
@dalias

Thanks and please don't end up like glibc. AWK is already a core dependency and I'm so annoyed that python slithered it's way in I switched my main build system to musl from glibc so it's not a core dependency of my OS. AWK's not hard to learn, especially if they want to work on compilers...

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Kirtai 🏳️‍⚧️6h ago

@2rad0 @pinskia @dalias
It amuses me that the Guix full source bootstrap includes musl, probably because of this exact thing.