Re: [PATCH] Make test-mhical pass with BSD yacc.

[Eric Gillespie]

Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> writes:

> I don't know if we've ever made an official decision on this ... but my
> feeling has been that requring flex and/or bison is fine.  Automake

Those who do more than pop up every few years the way I do
obviously should have more than I have, so I won't debate this,
but just throw in my $0.02 :)

If we ever find ourselves in need of features present in Bison
but not in yacc, we should switch in a heartbeat.  But it seems
silly to require Bison just to ease error message testing.

If we're going to look at additional requirements imposed on
developers, I would suggest that imposition would bring far more
bang for the buck if it were a proper scripting language we can
write the tests in.  This would not only have made this
test-mhical problem easier to fix, but also the other one I
fixed.  As Ralph says, we just don't see a way to have derive two
different timestamp formats from a single source of truth with
the tools available to us.  But with Perl or any of its
competitors, it would be trivial.

I like Perl, but any of its competitors would be fine.

Thanks!