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<gio>Hi boostrappable people. I was wondering if anybody has already bootstrapped bison. I did an attempt a few months ago, but it requires really a lot of iterations of past bison versions and various other hacks.
<gio>So I was thinking that maybe it could be easier to write another minimal bison that is just able to parse bison's grammar, which is not too complicated.
<gio>Do you know if someone has already tried this?
<gio>Do you know if someone has already tried this?
<civodul>gio: i think we never looked at it in Guix, strangely!
<civodul>people looked at many things but not this one
<civodul>the elephant in the room
<gio>civodul: Ok, good to know. I am giving it a try. No promises!
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<OriansJ>gio: perhaps nyacc could help with solving the bison problem?