Old version of bison

[Björn König]

Godwin Stewart wrote:

> Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with
> this version when 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to
> the day?

>From the first commit comment of devel/bison1875:

  Some grammars require the new version of Bison (such as
  PostgreSQL), however the new bison also breaks many many
  ports. Compromise with a new port. Installs as bison and
  _not_ bison1875 and should be mutually exclusive to the
  main bison port. Hopefully the bison authors will clean
  up their product and this port can disappear when the base
  bison port is updated in the future or enough ports are
  updated to work with newer versions of bison.

http://www.freshports.org/devel/bison1875/

Regards Björn