Re: Contributing gawk extensions

[arnold]

Hi.

su8 <wifiextender2@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi GNU,
>
> Ive wrote some extensions back in 2016 and want them to become part of
> gawk, can you have a look https://github.com/su8/gawk-extensions
>
> Best regard su8

I took a quick look. They look like nice things to have.

In general, I am not including lots of extensions in the gawk distribution
itself since that means that I take over maintainance of them. The extensions
in the gawk distribution are mainly intended as examples, although I
have tried to write them at the same level as production code.

Instead I am recommending that people who wish to contribute
donate their extensions to the gawkextlib project. (See
https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/gawkextlib.html and
http://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/). Please consider doing so.

In any case, I can include a link to your GitHub project in the gawk
manual, if you'd like. Please let me know.

Thanks,

Arnold