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

[Ken Hornstein]

>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.

I hear you; I just wanted to bring this up.

>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.

Sigh.  This is one of those tough ones.  It is nice to have a minimum
dependency set, but .... I see where you are coming from.  If we are
voting I'd still rather write a simple C program to do what we need
here, but I recognize that may be a minority view.

--Ken