From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 29 0:21:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from extra.gc.lviv.ua (extra.gc.lviv.ua [195.5.56.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434351557C for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 00:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vadim@gc.lviv.ua) Received: from gate.gc.lviv.ua (gate.gc.lviv.ua [192.168.168.18]) by extra.gc.lviv.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA78514 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:20:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gc.lviv.ua (intra.lviv.gc.com.ua [192.168.1.93]) by gate.gc.lviv.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA71666 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:19:28 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <379FFFCF.992175D0@gc.lviv.ua> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:16:32 +0300 From: Vadim Chekan Organization: Galitsky Kontrakty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Bison update request References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message