Re: Latest Flex 2.6 code & doc

[john43]

>> (1) The new code uses fork/wait/pipe, and the 
Windows people don't like that.
>
>Let's try to be precise here: the not-POSIX people 
don't like that.
>Windows may be the single most massive representative 
of that class, but
>it's not the only one.  There's DOS, OS/2, and lots of 
others, too.

True, but it was some windows people that actually 
complained. Apparently Windows 2000 now has some kind 
of fork(), and cygwin has a working version. Just to 
clarify, flex itself uses POSIX IPC mechanisms, but the 
_generated_ code does not.


>Flex used to be extremely portable up to now --- as 
should be expected of
>a tool that only has to read and write some plain 
text files to do its
>job.  A change to using Unix-flavour asynchronous 
subprocesses and piping
>would change that rather massively.
>