Re: bison and i18n

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:29:50 +0200
> From: Stepan Kasal <address@hidden>
> 
> >     fprintf(stderr, dgettext("bison-rt", "parse stack blown!\n"));
> > 
> > Then all that's needed is some new autoconf/automake machinery to
> > include the .mo files from the bison used on the developer's machine
> > in the distribution, and then to install them if they're not there
> > on the installation machine (assuming that gettext is available).
> 
> no, this is what would confuse the packaging mechanism of various
> distributions.

Please explain why this problem would happen.  I don't think I
understand it.

> But there is another question:
> Yacc was invented before shared libraries were common, right?
> Shouldn't we stop and ask ourselves: isn't the yacc skeleton big enough,
> so that it would deserve to be moved to a separate library?

The answer to that questions is: NO, the Yacc skeleton isn't big
enough to be in a separate library.  Even if you somehow solve the
problem pointed by Aharon with code fragments embedded in the parser.