Re: drop bison 1.x?

From: Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:14:21 +0000
Subject: Re: drop bison 1.x?
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I will simply drop 1.4 support by Monday if there is no opposition. Cheers, On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It would help a lot to test the parser if we drop bison 1.x support. > It won't change anything in the parser rules or in the code base but > only the way we test it. Bison version 1.x has different messages than > 2.x (formats and contents). It causes some tests to fail because of > these different messages. > > I wonder if we could simply stop to support bison 1.x in 5.3 and later > or at least in 5.4+. But if we do it in 5.4+ only it will be harder to > maintain both tests synced and compared the results between the two > branches (eventual BC breaks or similar breakages). > > Comments? > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | jy«þ4ž¶Ù€q¨ > £Ã”http://www.libgd.org > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

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