Unusual request: get bison 1.35 back as prev version

[Volker Quetschke]

>>>Can I suggest that a much less intrusive solution would be to provide
>>>patches to the affected .y files to get them to work with the latest
>>>version of bison?  Then people just have to apply a patch and move
>>>on, rather than having to download an executable and figure out what
>>>to do with it.
>>
>>Hmm, yes, this just means a: do a cvs checkout for OOO_STABLE_1.
>>Unfortunately you cannot request such things from "newbies".
> 
> I'm suggesting a patch file downloadable from your site which they
It's not my side, I'm just a volunteer.

> would apply with 'patch< file' and then just use the released version
> of bison to build things. That is, IMO, much simpler than what you're
> proposing.  There is no cvs or new version of bison involved.

Sigh, <http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.2/source.html> and
<http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/build_windows.html>

I don't have any authority in that project, the build of the OOo 1.0.2
sources is tested with bison 1.35 and current cygwin 1.3.x tools.
(It's called stable release)

I will not merge the changes from the current developer version of a
500 MB source monster to the stable (1.0.2) release, there are some
people more involved.

>>>So, no, I'm not going to put the old version of bison back.  I'm sorry.
>>
>>Hmm, OK, but you could do me a favor and put the 1.35 release (only the
>>source package, I still have the binary package) where I can get it, or
>>just mail it to me. This would spare me at least the rebuild of the
>>source package, and I can put it on an OOo server (including the sources
>>with patches). Just for the time it is still needed.
> 
> There are no patches.  Just download from ftp.gnu.org.

Ok, that should please the GPL, even if it is not the cygwin source
package that "build" the binary package.

See ya

      Volker

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