On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 04:15 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > Bojan Smojver <bojan <at> rexursive.com> writes: > > > Would there be interest in having a flex-reentrant (based on 2.5.33) package in > > Extras > > Something like this: > > ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/flex/flex-reentrant.spec Ok. Having flex 2.5.3x in fedora was my original goal when I became maintainer of flex. However old version is heavy with patches, and new version went more or less it's own way. So I'd rather do it only after certain confidence grows. So... what about creating flex-reentrant, that would be drop-in replacement for flex? People willing to experiment would install it instead of flex: Name: flex-reentrant Version: 2.5.33 Obsoletes: flex < 2.5.33 Provides: flex = %{version} All packages requiring flex would then pick up flex-reentrant automatically, without the need to pass configure flags or to setup environment variables. I think this way, we would get the greatest impact, yet the users would be free to choose if they want to install reentrant flex. When new flex turns out to be just fine, original flex package will be updated, obsoleting reentrant. The downside obviously is that you will have either reentrant, or old flex installed. This issue doesn't arise for Bojan's package, which installs flex to /opt. However I'm afraid people would find it cumbersome to have to explicitly pick the right binary. Thoughts? > Bojan PM -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
