Re: calc.at workaround for current test failures

[Akim Demaille]

 > Paul Hilfinger <address@hidden> writes:

 >> this near-instantaneous adaptation of the latest version of support
 >> software is not standard practice.

 > Keeping Bison portable to older releases of the developer tools would
 > cost some Bison-developer time, also somebody would have to volunteer
 > to do the ports, and to maintain them.

I would like to emphasize that Paul and I are working on these support
tools: it is thanks to Bison, the Coreutils etc. using bleeding edge
versions of these tools that the rest of us can get better tools.  My
use of most recent versions of sub tools on Bison is on purpose.