Subject: byacc package still needed ?

From: Sven Rudolph <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:20:24 +0200

Currently the byacc package is orphaned.

I received a note that byacc isn't needed anymore since the licence
for the bison parser skeleton files changed.

Do advantages of byacc compared to bison remain or can the byacc
package be dropped ?

	Sven
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From: "Peter Tobias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:26:33 +0200 (MET DST)

> Do advantages of byacc compared to bison remain or can the byacc

byacc and bison (-y) are not fully compatible. byacc works much
better for some *.y files (especially for *.y files from the "BSD world").
I'm using byacc for some of my packages.

The package shouldn't be dropped.

Thanks,

Peter

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