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On 2021-07-09 15:35, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward |
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>> owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never |
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>> officially declared end of life on older versions, |
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> Actually upstream does say when they will stop supporting each version |
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> [1]. |
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Um, where? Because I've looked at this page before, I've looked at it |
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again just now and I all can see there is that there will be no further |
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releases of Lua versions up to and including 5.2, and that there will |
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*probably* be no more 5.3 releases. No official End of Life statements, |
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no EOL timeline, and 5.3 is apparently both dead and alive at the same |
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time - which is fine for cats but not so for software. |
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> 5.1 can go because luajit would cover it |
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Alas, not quite. |
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One, we've got quite a few packages in the tree which currently declare |
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compatibility with lua5-1 but not luajitt. This could probably be |
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addressed quite easily, the worst I have seen so far after substituting |
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luajit for lua5-1 is some memory leaks, but it will take some time and |
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effort to test all such packages. |
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Two, more importantly, making LuaJIT the only available implementation |
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of the 5.1 API would severely cripple Lua support on alpha, hppa, ia64, |
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riscv, s390 and sparc (which have all got keywords on dev-lang/lua:5.1 |
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but are not supported by LuaJIT at all) as well as force arm64 and |
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ppc64le users to use a 2.1-beta version. This I am afraid might be the |
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deal breaker, as I honestly cannot imagine Gentoo suddenly implementing |
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support for all those arches. |
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