Re: Remove generated lexers from git?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Xinchen Hui <laruence@gmail.com> wrote: > 发自我的 iPad > >> 在 2014年8月27日，4:09，Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> 写道： >> >> Hi! >> >>> On a similar theme, could we also get rid of the generated Zend VM, >>> and wire up zend_vm_gen.php to make like we wire up bison and re2c? >> >> That would make building PHP for non-internals person harder and the >> list of dependencies they need to get right longer. While providing zero >> added value. And yes, there are a lot of non-internals persons building >> PHP. Sometimes they may even use git. >> >>> That would make PHP a dependency to build PHP, but it would hardly be >>> the first language which is reliant on itself to be built. Are there >> >> It would not be the first, but why do it? It works just fine right now, >> why break it? > +1 here. > > I am wondering how it will benefit us? Same, while I am annoyed from time to time due to git co after new builds, there is nothing so bad that I would ask anyone else to install PHP to compile PHP. > IMO, nothing but a worthless discussion again. Only off base answers are worthless. Discussions happen and it is up to us to make it constructive and end it in time. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org