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Hi, |
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:30:12 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > All that said, in FLOSS, he who volunteers, makes the rules, and |
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> > particularly given the upstream opposition meaning more gentoo-level work |
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> > required, if there's nobody willing to support lua in gentoo with dynamic |
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> > linking... |
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> You are correct. Basically we have to write our own build system and |
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> keep it up to date for every version of lua in order to support this. |
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Why should we? We can borrow from other distributions like Debian |
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or Fedora. Of course some Gentoo-specific tuning may be required, |
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but it will be not writing from scratch. |
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> If someone can convince upstream to support it, this would be far better for |
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> everyone. |
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In the ideal world, yes, I agree with this. But we are in real |
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world with real lua developers unwilling to cooperate from what I |
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see. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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