Re: Minimum bison and flex versions

From: John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Minimum bison and flex versions
Date: 2022-09-09 05:59:09
Message-ID: CAFBsxsHphBeVpbvSPLhMgFyA-eeYN6gjQ2Br48S+dnQviW3VOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 12:07 AM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2022-09-06 13:32:32 +0700, John Naylor wrote:
> > Here are autoconf-only patches to that effect.
>
> Looks like you did actually include src/tools/msvc as well :)

Ah, in my head I meant "no patches for the Meson branch". :-)

CI fails on MSVC pg_upgrade, but that shows up in some existing CF bot
failures and in any case doesn't have a grammar, so I have pushed,
thanks for looking!

> > Since the retirement of some older buildfarm members, the oldest Bison
> > that gets regular testing is 2.3. MacOS ships that version, and will
> > continue doing so for the forseeable future because of Apple's policy
> > regarding GPLv3. While Mac users could use a package manager to install
> > a newer version, there is no compelling reason to do so at this time.
>
> s/to do so/to force them to do so/?

There are good reasons for a dev to install a newer Bison, like better
diagnostics, so used this language.

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John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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