Re: Upgrading our minimum required flex version for 8.5

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> so the new minimum supported version would probably be 2.5.33
> (2.5.31 was kinda broken for other reasons, and there was no
> 2.5.32).
> 
> Since 2.5.33 is now over three years old, this does not seem like an
> onerous requirement, but I thought I'd better ask if anyone has an
> objection?
You'd be causing problems for SuSE Enterprise users, like us:
kgrittn@CCDEV-DB:/etc/init.d> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10
PATCHLEVEL = 2
kgrittn@CCDEV-DB:/etc/init.d> flex --version
flex 2.5.31
Just how broken is the version we're using?
-Kevin