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Hi all, |
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Soon I will be working on fixing up the state of dev-lang/lua, and there |
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are a couple of things I want to mention. |
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The first thing is liblua as a shared library. If you are using lua |
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internally in a program, upstream strongly recommends not linking it |
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this way; it is supposed to be statically linked into the executable. |
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Because of this, and because of the amount of custom patching we do to |
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maintain liblua as a shared library, I plan to stop creating the shared |
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library. |
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I'm a bit undecided still about slotting lua. I'm sure we |
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need subslots so we can force rebuilds when new lua releases enter the |
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tree. However, I'm still unsure whether we need slots. I don't know of |
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many things in the tree that are locked to a specific version |
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of lua (there is only one package based on an irc conversation I |
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had this week). |
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Does anyone have any thoughts? Are there more packages in the tree that |
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are locked to a specific version of lua? |
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Thanks, |
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William |