Re: [Flex-devel] My fork of flex, that supports Unicode

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

On Saturday, 14 June 2014, 11:39 am +0200, Mariusz Pluciński <plu...@gm...> wrote:

> On 06/14/2014 02:38 AM, Will Estes wrote:
> >So one of the things I'm doing is rewriting the test suite to use
> >automake's parallel test suite support as it makes the test suite
> >much easier to maintain, assuming I can get all the tests
> >rewritten. I've got about 20 tests rewritten, with the caveat that
> >I'm rewriting the easy tests first.
> 
> Just for sake of experiment, I've ported flex build system from
> autotools to CMake. As far as I checked, it works quite good- for
> both building and testing. Do you think that such change would be
> beneficial for mainline flex too?

I don't think so at this point.

> The parts of table that are not actively used by scanner programmer,
> usually all contain the same value. This is especially true in long
> not-yet-assigned Unicode planes. I suppose that even simple RLE may
> give great difference here.

I'd rather see a solution that works and is refineable than wait for something more perfect.

> Don't worry, my code is currently on top of your master branch.
> Okay, I'll then split my commits into smaller branches and start
> with pull requests.

Go for it!

--Will