Re: Bison 3 support for PHP 5.5
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 29 May 2014 08:28:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bison 3 support for PHP 5.5 | ||
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On Wed, 28 May 2014, Johannes Schlüter wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 19:39 +0100, Jakub Zelenka wrote:
>
> > That would make sense if we didn't have re2c generated files in the repo
> > already. Anyway I see your point. Bison version varies across the systems
> > more than re2c so the diffs in files would be more often which is not a
> > good idea...
>
> The main reason is that re2c is extremely uncommon whereas flex&bison
> are common tools for developer meta packages from distributions. Also
> historically re2c had only been used for unserialisation which is way
> less touched than other scanners and parsers. Maybe when switching from
> flex to re2c for ini and source scanners this decision might have been
> revised (and I think there actually was a debate)
I find the generated files in GIT annoying. Almost every single time I
compile I now have to changed files that GIT bitches about. I would be
all for removing generated files from the repository.
cheers,
Derick