Re: [Plantool-developer] Flex errors and warnings

[Reinout v. R. <re...@va...>]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Maurits van Rees wrote:

> Lomwel, Alexander-van wrote:
> > Hello Maurits;
> >
> > The lowest flex version I use is:
> > 	flex version 2.5.4
> >
> > please upgrade.
>
> I am now updating my Debian system. flex 2.5.31 (which I now have) is
> the newest I can find... :(

It would be nice to use debian-stable as a kind of minimum. Upgrading
something like flex beyond what's normally available also means adding
a new gcc, a new libc and basically replacing half your system...

Unless there is something *really* wrong with the old version or if
something big is missing: make sure it compiles/parses/whatever with
the older version. From what I saw till now it was mostly syntax
errors which the newer one allowed, undefined variables in C for which
the declaration had to be moved upwards, etc. Hardly too
inconveniencing.

And if something slips through, Maurits (or me) catches it.

Reinout

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