Re: Bison fix to not generate a temporary file

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 11:47:03 +0200
> From: Hans Aberg <address@hidden>
> 
> If MSOS compilers have some kind of translation feature back and forth to
> the UNIX path name convention, then there is no point in doing this, though.

I think "/" has been a directory separator in DOS and its successors
for two decades, so this particular use of "/" is not a problem.

There are other problems in that area with Bison, but they are
evidently not worth fixing since nobody has submitted patches.  Nobody
has even reported them, as far as I know.  I'm not particularly
interested in seeing bug reports in this area without patches, and
even if someone went to the effort of writing patches, I'd reject them
if they were complicated.  It is quite low priority to have Bison to
run on non-POSIX systems, and we can't let that unimportant goal
distract us from more important ones.