On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:44:53PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Peter Avalos wrote: > >So here's a patch that will bring in the latest version of flex, and will > >put it in contrib/. I'd appreciate some feedback. If I don't hear any > >objections, I'll plan on importing this in about a week. > > is that necessary? what do we gain from a new version? it seems that this > breaks code in world (see your amd patch). this leads me to the conclusion > that it might break 3rd party code as well. i think this should only go > into the tree after massive testing of pkgsrc etc.
I've decided to postpone this upgrade until after the next release to test the impact on 3rd-party programs. Here's the NEWS file for flex for people to see the user-visible changes: http://flex.cvs.sourceforge.net/flex/flex/NEWS?view=markup --Peter
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