Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> writes: > I don't know if we've ever made an official decision on this ... but my > feeling has been that requring flex and/or bison is fine. Automake
Those who do more than pop up every few years the way I do obviously should have more than I have, so I won't debate this, but just throw in my $0.02 :) 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. 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. I like Perl, but any of its competitors would be fine. Thanks!
