On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:27:32PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Ports cvsup'ed yesterday,
>
> $ cat /usr/ports/devel/bison/Makefile
> {snip}
> PORTNAME= bison
> PORTVERSION= 1.75
> PORTREVISION= 2
> {snip}
>
> Is there any particular reason why ports are sticking with this version when
> 1.875 was released 2 years ago almost to the day?Yes, the bison developers apparently don't understand why a widely-used build tool should need to remain backwards-compatible with itself (see also: autoconf, automake developers). Kris
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