Re: Bug#196800: flex mustn't assume stdint.h is available onallplatforms
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:50:55PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> In any case, I see this division of flex-old and flex as the
> best solution to the issue at hand. The new flex has exciting new
> features, but breaks with POSIX, and is not backwards compatible.
> It's scanners ought to work on most modern OS's.
How about adding a big warning in the long description of flex then,
like: "Warning, if you want to develop software on 'non-conforming'
platforms, you might want to consider using the flex-old package
instead"?
Michael
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