Re: Interactive parsing with Bison

[Hans Aberg]

On 29 Jun 2006, at 15:14, Frans Englich wrote:

> > > Why don't you decide to separate development into two "branches"?
> >
> > This would in effect be two different computer programs, which would
> > require different names, and different development teams.
>
> The conservative version would only have bug fixes, so over time it  
> would
> require very little maintenance.

It is a major hassle to have more than version in play. Common in  
commercial operations, but rare in university software, as there is  
not enough work-force to do it.

> Saying "This would in effect be two different computer programs" is to
> conclude the whole point of the idea. The point is to separate the two
> mutually exclusive ideas of conservatism, and supplying a piece  
> that is
> designed how users actually wants it.

One problem has to do with how things are called under UNIX: when  
calling "bison", it must be bison that is called.

You are free to start your own, conservative version of Bison  
though. :-)

  Hans Aberg