Re: To bird or not to bird ...

Bob,

I came to the same conclusion. My gut says that the parser should only be
changed to fix reported bugs, which would require a Bird, in my opinion, or to
undergo a revision to match a new IBIS spec version. I would still opt for a
bird in the latter case, just to keep the formality there, a Big Bird, if you
will, to deal with a big revision. The detail for such a bird would be
minimal-- change parser to match spec-- end of bird.

For enhancements, I still think a bird is appropriate, but would not be required
for a standalone sign checker, or one that checked for vcc relativity per
Arpad's comment. A bird could be used then to cause the new utility to be
merged into the parser after it is proven good.

Will

Hey, Ibis guys!

I have been reading the accumulated mail from the past couple of days and see a
thread about whether or not to change the parser for the current sign problem
without a full blown bird. After thinking about it, it would seem a fairly
large

departure from "policy" to do that. But since I agree with Kellee that
_somethin g
is needed here, how about a stand alone utility to check this until we can fully
hash out a bird? ( Hatch out a bird? ) Seems it should not be too mch harder to

write this than to write the changes into the parser ( He says! ). Just a
thought ... I defer to the group to determine how good a thought it is.

Thanks,

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Received on Mon Mar 21 11:57:12 1994