Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31647 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56408 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Aug 2007 20:00:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 56392 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2007 20:00:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Aug 2007 20:00:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=antony@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=antony@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: antony@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:44307] helo=mail.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BD/D0-48830-5DCA4C64 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:00:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 22194 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2007 20:00:17 -0000 Received: from internal.zend.office (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (10.1.1.1) by internal.zend.office with SMTP; 16 Aug 2007 20:00:17 -0000 Message-ID: <46C4ACD1.40805@zend.com> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:17 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tijnema CC: PHP Internals List References: <1186737992.2772.57.camel@johannes.nop> <1187289646.3724.57.camel@johannes.nop> <1187292459.3724.61.camel@johannes.nop> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Renaming namespaces to packages From: antony@zend.com (Antony Dovgal) On 16.08.2007 23:40, Tijnema wrote: > On 8/16/07, Derick Rethans wrote: >> No it's not, we only support 2.5.4. > > Confusing answers, but anyway, configure doesn't fail on flex, neither > does it generate a warning or such. It says (from the log) Checking > for flex.. and Checking for flex version.. It has been discussed numerous times, search the archives. Here is the link for starters: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=618177&aid=1447867&group_id=97492 For quick ones, the answer as to why nobody ever bothered about it: http://marc.info/?l=php-dev&m=105066214431326&w=2 > and btw derick, since when is 2.5.4 newer than 2.5.33? 2.5.4 has been > released in 1997, and 2.5.33 in 2006, which is still the latest stable > version atm. "Latest stable" doesn't always mean "better". We still use autoconf 2.13 because it's been proved to be the most stable and fastest version ever. But you're encouraged to change this, flex people have left some basic instructions, see the first link I mentioned above. -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal