Re: Re: drop bison 1.x?

From: Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:42:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: drop bison 1.x?
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On 2 September 2011 00:23, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be nice to get at least a little bit of the context before going in
> any kind of arguing.
>
> For one the failing test happening after my commit was my mistake. It has
> nothing to do with the bison versions but me having committed a wrong
> expectf expression. However, the 1.x support was the reason why I made this
> change. Instead of making it right I've updated my boxes with bison 2.x.
> Lazy and better.1
>
> That being cleared, anyone using 1.x will have noticed that the tests did
> not pass. Fact is that it looks like I am the only tester using 2.x. Do you
> have any example of supported systems still having only bison 1.x support?
>
> Also 1.x is 13 years old, I would very surprised to see anyone still using
> such an old system with 5.3.
>
> Now, as stated earlier, my testing hosts do not have 1.x anymore and I won't
> care about it anymore either. So basically nobody here takes care if it
> anymore but let claim we do :)
>
> On Sep 2, 2011 12:04 AM, "Ferenc Kovacs" <[email protected]> wrote:
>

The default build tools for building PHP on Windows uses Bison 1.27.

http://windows.php.net/downloads/php-sdk/php-sdk-binary-tools-20110512.zip
contains

[2011-09-02 11:36:29] [D:\php-sdk-binary-tools-20110512\bin] []
>bison.exe --version
GNU Bison version 1.27



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