On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalys...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! > > > re2c is widely available on Linux distros nowadays (probably > > On Linux distros on common platforms (Intel/AMD) - sure. But what if you > need an uncommon platform, or one that does not run Linux? It's those > platforms where you'd have to build PHP from source (after all, PHP is > also widely available as a package on Linux distros anyway) and adding > another hassle of figuring out how to build a third-party tool - I don't > think it's a good service to the community. > We always bundle generated files in distributed sources, so end-users need neither re2c nor bison to build releases. re2c is not a problem for Windows either, it is bundled as part of the PHP SDK. Nikita
