Re: Re: drop bison 1.x?

Thats not something you do in a bugfix release. Is different error messages really the only reason you want to drop 1.x? Seems like a bad reason. Why are we testing error messages from a 3rd party software anyway? -Hannes On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 19:14, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 | >> http://www.libgd.org >> > > > > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >