Any interest in porting GNU Bison (YACC) and GNU FLEX to OpenVMS?

[soutbarr]

I'm just wondering if anyone would find having those two programs useful? I don't particularly find Bison useful except for making a compiler. I have however used Flex a lot to make file readers.

[hb]

Which architecture? Did you check the list at https://vmssoftware.com/community/freeware?

[arne_v]

Bison and Flex have always worked on VMS.

I have been using them on VMS for like 35 years.

Probably not latest and greatest version, but I don't care about that.

[joukj]

I would be interested if recent versions are ported.

Jouk

[imiller]

I see bison 1.22 and yacc 2.0-20240109 here http://nchrem.tnw.tudelft.nl/openvms/software2.html

[joukj]

This 1.22 is the 35 year old one Arne is using.

I do not think byacc 2.0-20240109 is really compatible with the latest versions of bison.

And from the cited website about bison :
Note : This is the last version ported to OpenVMS. With newer versions I got stuck in unix-pipe disasters.

[soutbarr]

I would be interested if recent versions are ported.

Jouk

I'll make porting the most recent versions my priority. I'm far more familiar with flex than with bison. 12 years ago, I had flex set up to scan all of my computers RAM (Windows) and network traffic.

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I would be interested if recent versions are ported.

Jouk

The released vms GNU Flex is version 2.5.4
The released vms GNU Bison is version 1.35

Current version of GNU Flex is 2.6.4
Current version of GNU Bison is 3.8

[arne_v]

This 1.22 is the 35 year old one Arne is using.

The released vms GNU Flex is version 2.5.4
The released vms GNU Bison is version 1.35

Current version of GNU Flex is 2.6.4
Current version of GNU Bison is 3.8

I am on 1.35 and 2.5.4 now.



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I would be interested if recent versions are ported.

Jouk

The released vms GNU Flex is version 2.5.4
The released vms GNU Bison is version 1.35

Current version of GNU Flex is 2.6.4
Current version of GNU Bison is 3.8

Bringing VMS up to current versions would be good.

To be considered a viable OS for the future then VMS need latest and greatest of everything.

Looking at the version numbers then 2.5.4 -> 2.6.4 sound easier than 1.35 -> 3.8, but who knows.

Ideally the VMS changes should go back to the upstream projects so that VMS support becomes an "out of the box" thing.

[joukj]

oops I missed the whole 1.35 version. Now I got it and updated my web-page.


I'm also in favour of getting the VMS in the upstream projects. I do that for xlockmore (together with the maintainer). I usede to to it for wxWidgets until 1.5 year ago they switch to needing a C++03 compiler.

[imiller]

the link for 1.35 is incorrect
* bison
Purpose : Bison/Yacc parser
click here to get the source distribution of version 1.22
click here to get the source distribution of version 1.35