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Date:      Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:16:32 +0300
From:      Vadim Chekan <vadim@gc.lviv.ua>
To:        "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bison update request
Message-ID:  <379FFFCF.992175D0@gc.lviv.ua>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907290937210.1431-100000@morden.rebel.net.au>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote:
> 
> > > Which version of bison is there in Current?
> > > In 3.2-release it's 1.25 which is dated 1995!
> > > It's buggy. What about update to bison-1.28?
> >
> > For what I've read in -current it seems bison is on its way out.
> > better use yacc.
> >
> > (i might be wrong :)
> 
> This was stated the other day by David O'Brien as his intention, so it may
> not be wise to depend on bison being in current forever. However, there's

Did I miss somesing? Why Bison is bad and is there anyting better (and
free)?

> a port at /usr/ports/devel/bison which is currently at 1.27, and could be
> upgraded to 1.28 either by politely requesting so from the maintainer
> (wghicks@bellsouth.net) or by send-PRing your own patches :-)

Yes, I installed this port. But I still can't understand why stable have
got old and buggy bison if there's the new one without known errors. It
worthed to me a lot of time to find bug in "bison.simple" template. Only
then I started to looking for a recent version.

Vadim Chekan.


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