[GiNaC-devel] [PATCH] Faster, better (recursive descent) expression parser.

Alexei Sheplyakov varg at theor.jinr.ru
Thu Aug 21 10:44:54 CEST 2008


Hello,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33:47PM +0200, Jens Vollinga wrote:
 
> concerning your patch: do you really need autogen?!?

Yes. I don't want to write lots of boilerplate code manually. 

> Could not m4 do the job?

Let's put it this way: the only thing m4 is good for is obfuscating
the code.

> While I have no problem installing autogen on every system I use, I know 
> quite some people which would need to go to their admin and explicitly 
> ask for it to be installed

First of all, autogen is not necessary to build GiNaC from tarball. Secondly,
installing autogen does not require superuser privileges.

> (being then asked nasty question like: why, why now, are you sure, ...)

I wonder how those admins compile GCC :)

Best regards,
	Alexei

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