From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 13:43:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA65416A420 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from gateway.nixsys.be (gateway.nixsys.be [IPv6:2001:6f8:32f::42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F2813C46B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from wotan.home.paeps.cx (wotan.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:6f8:32f:10:a00:20ff:fe9b:138c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wotan.home.paeps.cx", Issuer "NixSys CA" (verified OK)) by gateway.nixsys.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3578404D for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:43:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (fasolt.home.paeps.cx [IPv6:2001:6f8:32f:10:214:5eff:feca:2496]) by wotan.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D5561D5 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:43:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from fasolt.home.paeps.cx (philip@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0GDhO66038144 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:43:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from philip@fasolt.home.paeps.cx) Received: (from philip@localhost) by fasolt.home.paeps.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0GDhOjT038143 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:43:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from philip) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:43:24 +0100 From: Philip Paeps To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080116134324.GG34278@fasolt.home.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20080116093302.GA13632@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080116093302.GA13632@carrot.studby.ntnu.no> X-PGP-Fingerprint: 356B AE02 4763 F739 2FA2 E438 2649 E628 C5D3 4D05 X-Date: Today is Sweetmorn, the 16th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 X-Date-in-France: Septidi 27 =?utf-8?B?Tml2w7Rz?= =?utf-8?Q?e?= CCXVI, jour du plomb X-Date-in-Rome: ante diem XVII Kalendas Februarias MMDCCLXI ab Urbe Condida X-Phase-of-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (59% of Full) X-Message-Flag: Get a proper mailclient! Organization: Happily Disorganized User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: Re: Csup cvsmode build discussion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:43:27 -0000 On 2008-01-16 10:33:02 (+0100), Ulf Lilleengen wrote: > Now, the base system already have flex, but the flex version in base is heavily > outdated (version 2.5.4 versus 2.5.34 in ports) and does not support reentrancy. > Is there a reason why it's outdated? What I can think of is that it is either > unmaintained, or that developers want it to disappear from base. I think it's just unmaintained in base ... I wonder what it would take to update it. /me takes a look - Philip -- Philip Paeps Please don't Cc me, I am philip@freebsd.org subscribed to the list. Da da da da da da da da da, yeah yeah yeah yeah, da da da da da da da da da, yeah yeah yeah yeah... -- Various people singing along to "Man On The Moon" without knowing the words