On 2009 Dec 7, at 16:53, Przemysław Czerpak wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Szak�ts Viktor wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> I understand Harbour doesn't need Flex at all now, 
>> yet, we have harbour.l in src/compiler. Not used 
>> from Makefile.
> 
> Yes. I eliminated FLEX usage few years ago.

Okay.

>> Any specific reason for that, or shall I go along 
>> and clean all references of flex from source tree, 
>> make system and INSTALL? Or should we leave harbour.l 
>> for reference, but clean only the rest?
> 
> I left harbour.l and macro.l only as some type of documentation
> for lexer tokens. FLEX uses well known syntax so this file should
> be easy understood by different developers.
> For sure we should clear all references to FLEX form INSTALL.
> We can also remove it from make system - FLEX does not generate
> MT safe code so we cannot use it.
> I have not idea if harbour.l and macro.l are really usable for
> other developers. Does any one ever look at them? If not then
> let's remove them too.

I have some doubts if they are looked at all.

In any case, it can be retrieved from SVN history 
anytime, so it's safe to delete from this aspect.

I'll do these a bit later.

Brgds,
Viktor

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