Re: Bison 3 support for PHP 5.5

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > On 28 May 2014 08:06, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 23 May 2014, Julien Pauli wrote: >>> >>> > That's a no-go for 5.5. >>> > 5.5 is stable, 1year old (at this email date), and we should not >>> > change such a thing into this stable branch. >>> >>> Right, but it's going to be supported for at least another year. And >>> right now, on the latest Ubuntu's with only bison 3 you can't actually >>> build it. Because of that, a patch like this should absolutely be >>> considered. >> >> The patch (as proposed) changes the ABI for zendlex and zendparse. As such >> I don't think it's applicable to PHP 5.5 in this form. > > Agreed, but as Derick said, there's definitely an argument for some > sort of Bison 3 compatibility in 5.5. My $0.02: don't touch PHP 5.5. I think it is reasonable to expect people to install a new version of a piece of software if their OS doesn't ship it by default. Mac OS X users have to do this all the time anyway.