On 11/20/2018 2:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> This package depends on the two previously ITP'd packages, kelbt and colm, >> so it >> probably can't be reviewed easily until those are in the distro. >> >> ragel is in Debian and Fedora: > > Just out of curiosity, what are you intending to use it for? Also, why > did you go for the development rather than the stable version, which is > usually available as ragel-6 in Linux? As a practical consequence of > that, the description string you copied (?) from the Linux packages is > currently missing the additional target languages that were added back > to ragel-7, unless you didn't configure them (I didn't check).
I needed ragel for building harfbuzz from its git repo (so that I could submit some patches). I chose the development version because that's what Fedora packages. The description is just the first paragraph of http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/. But the build does support several languages that aren't mentioned there. Ken
