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Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version
Hi,
we are in favor to do adoptions of our source for new feature/fixes of
bison. really no problem with that. the problem for us is that we are
releasing our source code (150MB bziped) of openoffice.org 3-4 times a
year, and this source code get distributed/mirrored widly. the result is
that we get lot of complains because a newer bison version then may
break the build again. and not everybody (esp. a windows user) is
familiar with downloading/applying patches of OOo source code.
I agree with you, redistributing older versions of binaries is really no
fun and we should avoid this.
grettings,
Martin
I fail to understand why backporting the .y file changes from HEAD is
such a big deal? Rather then asking people to install an unofficial
bison, why not provide a patch? I'm sure if you rummaged through some
of the distros out there, someone has already patched the stable OO to
work with bison-1.50+ (I know Mandrake 9 uses 1.75). There are many
reasons why this is a *good* idea, not withstanding it would prevent any
erroneous bug reports to our mailing list from people not using the
distributed bison. Plus it saves you the hassle of having to provide
the compiled binary. This saves time for both the OO community and the
cygwin community. And, before you say it, I *seriously* doubt that few
minor modifications to OO's .y files would introduce meaningful
instability.
Cheers,
Nicholas