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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:11:14 +0200
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To: Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] re2c version(s)
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > re2c is widely available on Linux distros nowadays (probably
>
> On Linux distros on common platforms (Intel/AMD) - sure. But what if you
> need an uncommon platform, or one that does not run Linux? It's those
> platforms where you'd have to build PHP from source (after all, PHP is
> also widely available as a package on Linux distros anyway) and adding
> another hassle of figuring out how to build a third-party tool - I don't
> think it's a good service to the community.
>

We always bundle generated files in distributed sources, so end-users need
neither re2c nor bison to build releases.

re2c is not a problem for Windows either, it is bundled as part of the PHP
SDK.

Nikita

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