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Re: Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version


martin.hollmichel@sun.com wrote:
Hi,

it's funny to see the bison story here endless as well :(.

since bison development went back to live again, I think it was with version > 1.28 we saw lots of regressions with bison on OpenOffice.org. This is not what I expected if the major release number is not changing.
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


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