Old Flex version in FC5?
Benjamin Thery
benjamin.thery at bull.net
Thu May 4 14:39:44 UTC 2006
Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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. (:
This sounds like a good compromise. One of the first thing I did when
I discovered Debian has two packages was: heading to Extras to see if
there was also an "updated-experimental" flex package there :)
I've opened a bugzilla to track this update request: 190673.
Thanks for your answers.
Benjamin
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