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From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC]: flex/lex update
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:01:28 +0100
Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> mentioned:

> hi
> 
> I noticed there is an update to lex/flex. The version in our tree
> is ancient and there seems to be some updates (http://flex.sourceforge.net/)
> 
> Can someone comment on the state of lex in our tree? It's not considered
> a contributed software (it resides in usr.bin) but it was taken from elsewhere.
> 
> what is our position? is it preferable for me to work on updating it or
> just fixing the one bug I ran into?
> 
> thnx!
> 
> roman

Are there any benefits in updating? Does it worth the hassle? We have this
version of flex in ports for those who needs extended features.

If there're no critical echancements/fixes in the updated flex version I'd
prefer to stay with what we have and just fix the bugs encountered locally.

- -- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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