Re: [PATCH 0/4] yacc.c: provide the Bison version as an integral macro

[uxio prego]

Hi,

> On 11 Nov 2020, at 09:05, Akim Demaille <akim.demaille@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Balazs Scheidler asked for the Bison version as a numeric macro in
> https://github.com/akimd/bison/issues/55.  The series of patches
> recycles the existing YYBISON from simply being `1`, to being the
> current version, e.g. `30704`.
> 
> I used a scale of 100, which should not be a problem.  We could use a
> scale of 1000

Do you still use a count starting in 90 for release candidates?
How safe is a limit of ten release candidates?

> , or even something not regular as Boost does (107400 is
> 1.74).

Hm.

The obvious: there is no ‘1.74’, there is ‘1.74.0’.
The sneaky: there is a ‘1.65.1’ listed.

https://github.com/boostorg/config/commit/4239074552cb233c09f344d5b76c80b8c22f22c8

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Sorry for the necromancy. Busy inbox.

Cheers,