[134198] trunk/dports/devel/bison/Portfile

larryv at macports.org larryv at macports.org
Thu Mar 19 17:31:09 PDT 2015


Revision: 134198
          https://trac.macports.org/changeset/134198
Author:   larryv at macports.org
Date:     2015-03-19 17:31:09 -0700 (Thu, 19 Mar 2015)
Log Message:
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bison: Update descriptions

New text is from
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bison.git/tree/doc/bison.texi?id=v3.0.4#n64
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bison.git/tree/doc/bison.texi?id=v3.0.4#n401

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/dports/devel/bison/Portfile

Modified: trunk/dports/devel/bison/Portfile
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--- trunk/dports/devel/bison/Portfile	2015-03-20 00:31:07 UTC (rev 134197)
+++ trunk/dports/devel/bison/Portfile	2015-03-20 00:31:09 UTC (rev 134198)
@@ -14,14 +14,17 @@
 
     installs_libs       no
 
-    description         general-purpose parser generator
+    description         The Yacc-compatible Parser Generator
     long_description    Bison is a general-purpose parser generator \
-                        that converts a grammar description for an \
-                        LALR context-free grammar into a C program to \
-                        parse that grammar. Once you are proficient \
-                        with Bison, you can use it to develop a wide \
-                        range of language parsers, from those used in \
-                        simple desk calculators to complex programming \
+                        that converts an annotated context-free \
+                        grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized \
+                        LR (GLR) parser employing LALR(1) parser \
+                        tables. As an experimental feature, Bison can \
+                        also generate IELR(1) or canonical LR(1) \
+                        parser tables. Once you are proficient with \
+                        Bison, you can use it to develop a wide range \
+                        of language parsers, from those used in simple \
+                        desk calculators to complex programming \
                         languages.
 
     depends_lib         port:gettext \
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