[RFC]: flex/lex update
Xin LI
delphij at delphij.net
Mon Jan 12 23:50:48 PST 2009
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Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:01:28 +0100
> Roman Divacky <rdivacky at 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.
My $0.02 personal opinion: if we (say, nobody among -committers@ or
someone who is actively answering PRs if any) do not intend to maintain
it ourselves, then it would be probably a good idea to make it
up-to-date with the vendor version, or rename it to something like
'bsdlex' and teach the build infrastructure about it. Build tools
should work out-of-the-box and act similar, or at least, not very far
from other POSIX operating systems IMHO =-)
Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/
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