Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:74449 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 75255 invoked from network); 23 May 2014 13:03:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 May 2014 13:03:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=john@bafford.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=john@bafford.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain bafford.com from 96.241.205.2 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: john@bafford.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 96.241.205.2 nova.zort.net Received: from [96.241.205.2] ([96.241.205.2:60621] helo=nova.zort.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/21-01753-D274F735 for ; Fri, 23 May 2014 09:03:42 -0400 Received: from [IPv6:::1] (nova.zort.net [96.241.205.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by nova.zort.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s4ND3aEP015502 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 23 May 2014 09:03:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 08:03:36 -0500 Cc: Pierre Joye , Rasmus Lerdorf , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <92961104-3A95-4A1D-BF77-408A5BABB40E@bafford.com> References: <2DC459EE-AE98-4CAE-977A-6FB918FDEF54@bafford.com> <537EA42B.4000000@lerdorf.com> To: Julien Pauli , Ferenc Kovacs X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bison 3 support for PHP 5.5 From: john@bafford.com (John Bafford) Hi Julien and Ferenc, On May 23, 2014, at 06:58, Julien Pauli wrote: > That's a no-go for 5.5. > 5.5 is stable, 1year old (at this email date), and we should not > change such a thing into this stable branch. >=20 > For 5.6, we are actually in RC stage (with first RC to come soon). > Seeing the comments saying that it's all compatible and tests have > passed, I'm not against requiring bison 3.x for PHP 5.6. > Waiting for Ferenc's answer ;-) >=20 > Thank you for your patch and your support to make PHP better. For your convenience, I=92ve made a pull request for these changes = against master (which would likely prevent at least one merge conflict = vs. merging the 5.5-based pull request into master): https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/685 I would point out that both pull requests only add Bison 3.x support; = they don=92t prevent Bison 2.x from working, so unless you have another = reason for wanting to remove Bison 2.x support, this change doesn=92t = require dropping it. (I wouldn=92t necessarily advocate dropping Bison = 2.x support since we=92re not actually using any Bison 3-specific = features.). > Julien Pauli -John=