[jira] [Commented] (THRIFT-4156) Using boost spirit instead of lex and yacc

["James E. King, III (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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James E. King, III commented on THRIFT-4156:
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Cool idea +1 from me, will make cross-platform builds easier too.  Only problem is that the compiler is currently required to build successfully without boost installed and the compiler is supposed to have no runtime dependencies.  This is why there is no boost in the current compiler.

> Using boost spirit instead of lex and yacc
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-4156
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4156
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Compiler (General)
>            Reporter: Mike Gresens
>
> As a developer I want to use boost spirit to get rid of lex and yacc.
> This kicks dependency to lex, flex, yacc, bison or what ever.
> This makes building easier, because only c++ code must be compiled.
> All grammar is inside the code - all c++. No need to learn ll and yy.



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