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Re: gEDA-user: Icarus snapshot 20040606 on Solaris



On Jul 30, 2004, at 12:39 PM, Stephen Williams wrote:
> |> bison has been a consistent source of irritation/entertainment
> |> as every few months they seem to change the argument meanings.
> |> I'm tempted to just include premade bison output in the snapshot
> |> tarball and be done with it. Hmm...
> |
> |
> |   A lot of packages do exactly that.
> |
> |   But, I'm forced to wonder...why not just use standard yacc mode
> | ("bison -y")?  It's portable, it's supported *everywhere*, and it 
> Just
> | Works(tm).
>
> The gentleman has a good point.

   It was actually Joshua's idea; we were discussing it privately last 
night.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire             "...it's a matter of how tightly
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