PyXML XPath and XSLT Re: [XML-SIG] Mass assignment of 4Suite bug reports

[Mike Olson]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 11:37, Michael McLay wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 September 2002 12:42 pm, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, in particular the bison parser modules.
> >
> > There is even more that has moved to C recently in 4Suite, so we'll
> > certainly want to keep in mind general principles about what we want to
> > keep in Python int he PyXPath/PyXSLT versions.  I do like the idea of
> > keeping them mostly Python for max cross-platform support.
> 
> Isn't it just the portablity of the specific C code that is at issue? The 
> bison dependancy is troublesome for porting to the Mac and Windows. Most 
> everyone would prefer the speed of C if it is available and it compiles 
> without a hitch.

Note, Jeremy rewrote Bison (and LExx) in Python so now the code that was
Bison dependent no longer requires bison installed.  We do the complete
conversion from .y (or our xml version of a .y) to a Py and C parser
without bison (or flexx) installed.

Mike

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