Re: Re: Remove generated lexers from git?

From: Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 19:04:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: Remove generated lexers from git?
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Hi! > Case in point: The current zend_language_scanner.c has been generated by > Andrea, who uses a different re2c version from everybody else (0.13.6 > instead of 0.13.5). This means that if I do some tiny change to > zend_language_scanner.l I immediately get a 3000 line diff. So we just end > up changing this file back and forth depending on the algorithm used by > different versions. So, from time to time we'd get a big diff. But what's a big problem with that? It doesn't seem to hurt anything. And language scanner is not changed every day. I don't see any benefit in such change, just making building PHP harder. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/

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