bison 3.0 released [LWN.net]

bison 3.0 released

Posted Aug 3, 2013 16:26 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: bison 3.0 released by andresfreund
Parent article: bison 3.0 released

Well, yes, but this is bison we are speaking of. I may be wrong but my feeling was that anyone who is capable of writing a bugfix for bison parser source will either have already installed bison 3.0, or can do so in minutes. (How many casual contributors understand context-free grammar, Backus-Naur form, etc? Of those, how many can use bison but would find it hard to install bison 3.0?)

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bison 3.0 released

Posted Aug 5, 2013 5:18 UTC (Mon) by quanstro (guest, #77996) [Link]

it's possible to be skilled and a casual contributor. "drive by" fixes make sense for folks to trip over something that bugs them in their daily use. some percentage of these folks are going to be serious programmers who just aren't going to become core developers.

using the very latest features for acmeprog x.y.z, thus requiring that version to be installed might just be a bridge too far. especially if other things, like a day job, require version p.d.q.