> -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:13 AM > To: Michael Meskes > Cc: PostgreSQL Hacker > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ECPG won't compile anymore > > > Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:29:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > > I'd be inclined to say that you don't commit until bison 1.49 is > > > officially released. Got any idea when that will be? > > > > No, that's the problem. ECPG and the backend parser are > running out of > > sync. After all bison's release may be later than our next one. > > > > I cannot commit even simple bugfixes anymore as my source tree > > already has the uncompilable bison file. So I would have to > work on two > > different source trees. I don't exactly like that. > > Are we the only ones up against this problem? Hard to imagine we are > the only ones up against this limit in bison. Are there > other options? > I don't see how we can distribute ecpg in 7.3 without some > kind of fix.
There are some other freely available parser/generators. I like the Lemmon parser generator. Of course, I have no idea how traumatic it would be to convert a Bison grammar into Lemmon. There is also PCCTS and some other free ones. http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
