Re: flex snapshot/beta

[W. L. Estes]

> O.K...so how about putting out a beta in addition to the snapshot
> so that those of us who would like to test some of the new flex
> features can do so without having to jump through all of the
> autoconf hoops?

That's in the works, but i don't think that "make dist" does
everything I want it to as of yet.

> Don't be so hasty to jump to conclusions. UWIN is quite good;
> in fact it works better than many Linux distributions, in no
> small part because it includes the one proper implementation
> of the Korn shell. It supports symbolic links on NTFS compatibly
> with Windows "shortcuts", something no Linux distribution does
> (it's not clear why, since the code for reading and writing windows
> shortcuts wasn't particularly difficult to write). UWIN includes a
> large number of utilities, several of which are GNU versions.
> Building flex 2.54a, etc. under UWIN is painless.

because they're not cvs snapshots.  (I dont keep the automatically
generated files in cvs because that's a waste of diskspace)

> Note that there are no "windows-specific problems" involved;
> the problem is that the snapshot distribution of flex requires
> (without notice or warning) a bunch of other packages as
> prerequisites (current versions of which are either broken or
> require yet other specific versions of other packages (or both)).

ok, I'll be sure to add a note regarding this set of issues.

--Will