Re: [Flex-help] flex-2.5.37 Tests FAILED: 48A

[Hugh S. <hg...@dm...>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Will Estes wrote:

> Hugh,
> 
> It would be hard to maintain without some behind-the-scenes magic that
> itself would be hard to maintain.

Where would be a good place to find out more about this?  I clearly
don't know enough, and this is not the place.  I can't frame the
enquiry correctly (developer practice \cap tools \cap graph theory)
to find a list, or find it in a library unaided.

> 
> Flex documents its test suite dependencies, for what that's worth. It's
> also possible to build flex without having either flex or bison directly
> available. (Well, you need a C compiler, but that's an indirect
> dependency.)
> 
> --Will

        Thank you,
        Hugh
> 
> On Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 12:04 pm +0100, Hugh Sasse <hg...@dm...> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Will Estes wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday, 24 October 2012, 10:15 am +0100, Hugh Sasse <hg...@dm...> wrote:
> > > > I think sunfreeware vanished/went commercial, but there might be
> > > > binaries elsewhere.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hugh,
> > > 
> > > Blastwave is the *replacement* for sunfreeware. Dennis has been doing
> > > some heavy lifting over there for years. I'm happy to see he's working
> > > on getting flex up to date on Solaris.
> > 
> > I'm sorry for causing offence, that obviously came over as crass.
> > Dennis, your address was staring me in the face and I'd not read
> > past the "@".  Our suns have been off for a while, or I'd build that
> > patch myself.  And I remember blastwave now, amd am grateful for
> > your work.  Thank you. 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for pitching in to help this effort. It's hard work that needs
> > > doing.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > I tried to get dependency info put into the GNU coding standards, so
> > this sort of thing would be easier.  As you can tell, I didn't
> > succeed.  "It will be too hard to maintain."
> > 
> > > 
> > > --Will
> > > 
> > > 
> >         Hugh
> 
> -- 
> Will Estes (wl...@us...)
> Flex Project Maintainer
> http://flex.sourceforge.net/
>