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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>
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