[csw-maintainers] Flex twice?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi James,

Am 11.10.2009 um 10:57 schrieb James Lee:
> On 09/10/09, 14:18:36, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote  
> regarding
> [csw-maintainers] Flex twice?:
>
>> I noticed that we have two versions of Flex:
>>   CSWflex   flex
>>   CSWoflex  oflex
>
> There are three.  Dagobert, see if you can notify the maintainer of
> CSWflex-new by kicking him in the nuts.

Done. *OUCH*

>> Both are 2.5.4 and from 2005 before my time. Maybe some of the
>> old-timers remembers or is this just an artifact to be dropped?
>
> oflex, flex and flex_new were supposed to be because of compatibility
> versioning.  Why I don't know, there was talk on the maintainers' list
> and the history of release can be see in oldpkgs.  I wish for only one
> version that works.

I can understand why there is flex and flex_new, but I can not  
understand
why there are two identical versions flex and oflex.

The old maintainers list is closed now that the new list became public.
Ihsan, could you please send me the old mails in some format I can
import? I don't want to make the same errors twice, usually...


Best regards

   -- Dago