Re: Odd historical fact about Bison

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Odd historical fact about Bison
Date: 2009-07-09 23:24:53
Message-ID: 200907100124.53862.andres@anarazel.de
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On Friday 10 July 2009 00:58:01 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > As best I can tell, they ended up not changing the API, and there is no
> > reason we shouldn't depend on the feature and continue to claim that we
> > work with bison>= 1.875. Does anyone feel uncomfortable with that?
> > (It may be of mostly academic interest anyway, since I bet few people
> > are still using such old bison versions. The only reason I've got one
> > is for intentional trailing-edge compatibility testing...)
>
> The real question is slow-to-upgrade OSes like HP-UX, AIX, OpenBSD and
> Solaris. What version of Bison are they shipping with?
Most current solaris 10/5.10 ships with 1.875

Andres

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