From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 10:24:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462371065673 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@SpringDaemons.com) Received: from mx0.deglitch.com (backbone.deglitch.com [IPv6:2001:16d8:fffb:4::abba]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC76C8FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:24:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@SpringDaemons.com) Received: from DSPAM-Daemon (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.deglitch.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A8FCE8FC27 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:22 +0300 (MSK) Received: from sputnik.SpringDaemons.com (unknown [83.166.229.34]) by mx0.deglitch.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 434CC8FC18; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:22 +0300 (MSK) Received: by sputnik.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 21239B86F; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:36:29 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:36:20 +0300 From: Stanislav Sedov To: "Garrett Cooper" Message-Id: <20090113133620.a4a90197.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0901122332k3279624ajf1282a5f831cbf38@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090112200128.GA85280@freebsd.org> <20090113100623.493b3b43.stas@FreeBSD.org> <7d6fde3d0901122332k3279624ajf1282a5f831cbf38@mail.gmail.com> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-XMPP: ssedov@jabber.ru X-Voice: +7 916 849 20 23 X-PGP-Fingerprin: F21E D6CC 5626 9609 6CE2 A385 2BF5 5993 EB26 9581 X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Tue Jan 13 13:24:22 2009 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 1.0000 X-DSPAM-Improbability: 1 in 98689409 chance of being spam X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0023 X-DSPAM-Signature: 496c6bd6967001359969560 Cc: Stanislav Sedov , Roman Divacky , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [RFC]: flex/lex update X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:24:25 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:30 -0800 "Garrett Cooper" mentioned: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:01:28 +0100 > > Roman Divacky 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. > > But our version of flex is almost 6 years old 0-0? > (for anyone oblivious of its need -- including me a few minutes > ago) we apparently need it for the following sourcefiles: > We don't do software updates just for updates only. If it works why touch it? You can't garantee the new version won't break anything. If people want to use new flex why not install it from ports? - -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklsbq0ACgkQK/VZk+smlYGMtgCeNy9GwP50rrhX16pSuBmYQedT MsMAnRKN3hnsjHIh+4nx+XIdTUyTafZd =6lph -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- !DSPAM:496c6bd6967001359969560!