2009/12/8 Joerg Schilling
Stefan Seyfried
wrote: They would not be listed. Only if you would search for, say, "yacc", it would point you to "bison". (Phew, avoided the cdr<censored> example ;)
There is a significant difference: "bison" is an independent development ;-)
Hmmmm... http://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html HISTORY Byacc was written around 1990 by Robert Corbett who is the original author of bison. Originally written in K&R C, I have modified it to conform to ANSI C, and made other improvements. See the changelog for details. If we look at http://byaccj.sourceforge.net/ you see byacc is called "yacc" (same command name) as AT&T yacc for compatibility reasons. If we go back to AT&T then /bin/sh original was replaced by Bourne shell, cc got replaced by pcc, and kept the cc(1) name, lots and lots of precedent for avoiding breaking tool chains when replacing components with new implementations. Anyone heard Ken & Dennis complaining that GNU have re-used the name of ls(1), grep(1) etc? Even in the 90's it was common to upgrade Sun's Solaris yacc, and provide a cc from 3rd party. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org