Old Flex version in FC5?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu May 4 14:30:31 UTC 2006


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 07:33 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Benjamin Thery wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My question is: why does Fedora ships flex 2.5.4a and not a more recent 
>>>one?
>>
>>Probably at least 1 of:
>>* If it aint broke, don't fix it
>>* No one has asked
> 
> * Many flex versions > 2.5.4a had been too broken to be usable
> * Many flex versions > 2.5.4a had been too incompatible to flex-2.5.x
> * Many major packages have not been prepared for flex > 2.5.x

Probably explains why Benjamin noticed other distros with 2 flex 
packages (one old, one new).  Perhaps someone could review possibilities 
of dually-installed flex pkgs, and submit the "new" one to Extras. (:

-- Rex




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