Re: Bison 1.50 experiences

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

Paul> I'm not sure why Bison needs temporary files now -- perhaps Akim
Paul> can chime in on that.  But if it needs them, it definitely must
Paul> clean them up if interrupted, so code to do that must be added
Paul> if the need for temporary files cannot be removed.

It doesn't.  As a matter of fact, we do have proto-patches that will
certainly help us, but I never had enough time to address this issue
(that I considered as lower priority since that's just annoying, not
really problematic).  See on Google (sorry, I don't have the web
either currently :) :) :) with keyword

        readpipe florian krohm bison

The latest version I have is included in his message.  Florian had
signed all the FSF papers, but finally lacked time to finish what he
was on.

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Paul> As far as making Bison a DLL or integrating with M4 goes, that
Paul> might be a nice thing but right now I want to concentrate on
Paul> getting the current version reliable and portable.

That's the very long term goal, and has to be done from M4, not
Bison.  This is not our goal currently.  Bison still has to make a lot
of progress in other areas.