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