>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.
I hear you; I just wanted to bring this up. >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. Sigh. This is one of those tough ones. It is nice to have a minimum dependency set, but .... I see where you are coming from. If we are voting I'd still rather write a simple C program to do what we need here, but I recognize that may be a minority view. --Ken
