From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 19 18:07:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA07060 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA07055; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA08453; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:07:10 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:07:10 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199606200107.TAA08453@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Michael Smith Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@sri.MT.net, phk@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. In-Reply-To: <199606200128.KAA04284@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199606191653.JAA29372@freefall.freebsd.org> <199606200128.KAA04284@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Nate's comments about Flex are telling. His insistence that he hasn't > upgraded it "because it wasn't necessary" aren't borne out by the > continuing questions being asked along the lines of "the Flex in /usr/bin > is version a.b.c which is really old and has lots of bugs and can't be > used to compile XYZ, you need version i.j.k instead". But those programs aren't parts of ports or part of our base system, it's importance/necessiry is minimal compared to 'fixing existing bugs' and 'extending the current system'. It's all a matter of priorities. If flex was a critical component it would have been upgraded months ago. > I'm not accusing Nate of being lazy; I'm suggesting that upgrading Flex > would be a lot easier if it weren't necessary to start by rewriting the > makefile from scratch. It took me 20 minutes to upgrade flex today. All of the work was done by Geoff Rehmet originally, so upgrading was a breeze. I suspect the next version will also be a breeze. Nate