Re: keyword list/ecpg

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Mike Aubury wrote:
>> Theres also another thing that needs to be decided, which is if the generated 
>> ecpg grammer should be developer generated (ie. Michael Meskes runs a script 
>> and commits the output), or should be generated for each and every source 
>> based installation. I personally would stongly favour the script being a tool 
>> for ecpg tool developers and not used as part of a normal installation.

> What happens when a non-Michael developer changes the original gram.y?
> Is he expected to run the script before committing too?  That sounds
> brittle to me.

As long as the script is written in Perl and not exceedingly slow,
I see no reason it shouldn't be required to run as part of a build from
CVS.  We already require Perl use elsewhere in the build if you're not
working from a tarball.
        regards, tom lane