According to Albert Cahalan, on 21 Jul 2004 14:01:43 -0400, >On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:57, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > >> Maybe, but when your system is dead saying only "syntax error", it >is> the only solution I found to restore the situation from osx. Can >you> propose a better one ? Knowing that I didn't have a rescue disk >at> hand. >> >> To avoid having to use this rescue method, I added this syntax >checking> step in my ybin but Ethan does not seem to be interested by >patches for> version 1.3. > >I suggest that you simply start maintaining it. Ethan shouldn't >object, since he'd kind of disowned the old code, but even if >he does... somebody's got to maintain it.
I don't think I can maitain the whole package. I don't understand a lot to all this openfirmware stuff. I just know how to parse and check a file, especially when the parser already exists :). Maybe I can just see with the package maintainer how to add the syntax checking ybin in the yaboot package. Basically, it is just Ethan parser with prom_printf replaced with printf. I would have preferred a lex/yack scanner but it was longer to write and I was afraid to introduce new errors. > >Version 2 could be years away. It's already been 2.5 years >since the rewrite was started. I'm afraid so... -- Cedric "[Of course] I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail
