On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 11:08:20AM +0000, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 16 Jan 2008, at 09:33, Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > >> Hello hackers, >> >> As some might know, I've been implementing CVSMode for csup over the last >> couple >> of months. Right now, I'm quite close to have it work (does not mean it [...] >> >> What I ask of you is comments on these alternatives as well as inserting >> your >> fantastic idea if you happen to have one :) > > I'm not going to comment on the merits of flex and bison as I like to be > polite :-) > > I'd suggest (a), but package the yacc and lex source files up as a port so > that they are in CVS and can readily be rebuilt if necessary. > Perhaps. Not very pretty.
> Why do you want prefixing? And precisely what do you want to do with > parameters? > Prefixing is needed since csup already have a configuration parser written in lex/yacc and therefore needed to avoid conflicts. Parameters is nice if one were to modify the parser to take extra arguments, I don't have a concrete example for it yet, but it's nonetheless a requirement for reentrancy. An alternative d) that I got from Maxime is that I'll take a look and see if I can use a parser from cvsync or from the previous SoC 2005 work, which I think is a good idea. -- Ulf Lilleengen _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
