Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove generated lexers from git?

[email protected] (Pierre Joye)
Newsgroups php.internals
Message-ID <CAEZPtU76=bLFD2HJN-y=tDexn-wCtO5_dXJhpj-PRsQmEhE5CQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Xinchen Hui <[email protected]> wrote:
> 发自我的 iPad
>
>> 在 2014年8月27日,4:09,Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> 写道:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> On a similar theme, could we also get rid of the generated Zend VM,
>>> and wire up zend_vm_gen.php to make like we wire up bison and re2c?
>>
>> That would make building PHP for non-internals person harder and the
>> list of dependencies they need to get right longer. While providing zero
>> added value. And yes, there are a lot of non-internals persons building
>> PHP. Sometimes they may even use git.
>>
>>> That would make PHP a dependency to build PHP, but it would hardly be
>>> the first language which is reliant on itself to be built. Are there
>>
>> It would not be the first, but why do it? It works just fine right now,
>> why break it?
> +1 here.
>
> I am wondering how it will benefit us?

Same, while I am annoyed from time to time due to git co after new
builds, there is nothing so bad that I would ask anyone else to
install PHP to compile PHP.

> IMO, nothing but a worthless discussion again.

Only off base answers are worthless. Discussions happen and it is up
to us to make it constructive and end it in time.

-- 
Pierre

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