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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:14:21 +0200
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Subject: Re: drop bison 1.x?
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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 <pierre.php@gmail.com> 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
>
> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org
>



-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org