flex upgrade

[Peter Avalos]

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:44:53PM +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Peter Avalos wrote:
> >So here's a patch that will bring in the latest version of flex, and will
> >put it in contrib/.  I'd appreciate some feedback.  If I don't hear any
> >objections, I'll plan on importing this in about a week.
> 
> is that necessary?  what do we gain from a new version?  it seems that this 
> breaks code in world (see your amd patch).  this leads me to the conclusion 
> that it might break 3rd party code as well.  i think this should only go 
> into the tree after massive testing of pkgsrc etc.

I've decided to postpone this upgrade until after the next release to test
the impact on 3rd-party programs.  Here's the NEWS file for flex for people
to see the user-visible changes:

http://flex.cvs.sourceforge.net/flex/flex/NEWS?view=markup

--Peter
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