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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