Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] luajit global useflag

[Rafael Goncalves Martins]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins
<rafaelmartins@g.o> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@×××.name> wrote:
>> В письме от Вс, 1 марта 2015 20:36:03 пользователь Ben de Groot написал:
>>>
>>> Or maybe one of the other lua package maintainers has plans?
>>
>>
>> Not that I'm in-tree lua maintainer, but as Lua-overlay contributor and lua-
>> fanboy, I'd suggest to unmask all lua-interpreters and make them slotted just
>> as python/ruby/whatever. And provide a eselect-lua (I had ebuild for it
>> somewhere).
>
> This isn't going to happen any time soon, for several reasons. :(
>
>> Although, there is single issue: precompiled bytecode isn't compatible between
>> even "5.1" PUC-Rio Lua and LuaJIT, and, of course, AFAIR, between Lua5
>> releases.
>
> You explained why yourself. This issue can be solved doing something
> like what is done for python, compiling and installing bytecode for
> each interpreter, but unless someone implements this perfectly, at
> least luajit isn't going to be involved in such thing.
>
>> But I don't think Lua-users do not know about that, so I don't think it is a
>> real problem.
>
> No, this is a real problem to implement multi-interpreter support.
> They don't care about the issue because they don't care about
> supporting other interpreters, or even multiple versions of Lua
> installed in parallel.
>
> I'm going to repeat this once again: Lua was designed to be built
> statically, then upstream don't cares about compatibility between
> different versions and interpreters. Creating static libraries is
> something that distributions want (and is generally the best
> approach), but the upstream developers don't care about this at all.
> That said, if you want to go that way, you are in your own, upstream
> isn't going to care about your issues or make your life easier.

s/Creating static libraries/Creating shared libraries/

obviously. :)

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