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ropensci / bibtex

bibtex parser for R
https://docs.ropensci.org/bibtex/
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Development environment of contributors? #41

Closed matthewwiese closed 1 year ago

matthewwiese commented 2 years ago

Hey all,

I encountered some bumps in the road unrelated to the rchk issues that I've been recently looking into, and thought it pertinent to bring up: how do existing contributors develop for bibtex locally?

For example, I'm on Ubuntu 20.04, and so my bison version is 3.5.1 and flex is 2.6.4 - this proved to be a headache when running regram.sh to rebuild the lexer and parser C source/headers.

For example, the first line of src/bibparse.c:

/* A Bison parser, made by GNU Bison 2.3.  */

Suggests that it was built from a version of Bison 15 years old!

I ended up compiling Bison 2.3 from source and modifying regram.sh to use that as a temporary workaround. Am I missing something here? How is this package maintained/developed?

coatless commented 1 year ago

Gently closing this out as the package no longer uses C.