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Re: [PATCH] Make test-mhical pass with BSD yacc.

2020-09-20 18:02:12
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

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