Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

[Azamat Hackimov]

2017-06-30 22:16 GMT+05:00 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>:

> All,
>
> Upstream does not support liblua as a shared library, and they do not
> support installing multiple versions of lua onto a system. After
> conferring with the other lua maintainer, the decision has been made to
> remove this custom support from our lua package as well. This has been
> talked about many times upstream.


Lua devs very "hostile" to Linux distributers. I don't see why we should do
as they want to do.
They not have open vcs to simply see what they changes in new release, they
don't accepts
patches for system integration. They didn't even elementary easy-to-use
build system. Just
look to another distributives, they all do versioned and shared libraries
of Lua 5.{1,2,3}. Fedora
devs did custom Autotools-based buildsystem, Debian - provided pkg-config
files. There also
exists excellent LuaDist framework - still outdated, yes, but we can take
from them CMake
buildsystem to provide better integration into Gentoo enviroment. You have
so many options
but you still want to follow unwelcome Lua rules.


> They do not want it, and using liblua as a shared library causes
> performance issues.
>

Why, we live in XXI century, where this argument came from? What about
security, did you
forgot about it? How do you planning to do backward compatibility with old
lua5.1 libraries
and projects? They definitely have breakage since lua 5.2 and 5.3 not
compatible with each
other. Why Lua can't have same eclass as multislotted Python or Ruby? Lua
ecosystem not
so big, about 500 packages so why there no even little efforts to make Lua
support in Gentoo
better?

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