Re: Old Flex version in FC5?

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

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
 
> File an update request against Fedora Core/flex at 
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Ralf