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FS#42713 - [lua-posix] add support for lua 5.1
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Opened by Davide Del Zompo (FunkyAss) - Saturday, 08 November 2014, 09:09 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Thursday, 13 November 2014, 13:42 GMT
Opened by Davide Del Zompo (FunkyAss) - Saturday, 08 November 2014, 09:09 GMT
Last edited by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto) - Thursday, 13 November 2014, 13:42 GMT
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Actually community/lua-posix PKGBUILD supports lua 5.2 only. Since lua 5.1 is in the official repos (extra/lua51) and, as far as I can tell, is still widely used, is it possible to make lua-posix a split package building both lua-posix and lua51-posix? Additional info: I modified the original PKGBUILD and turned it into a split package; and it could be used as a base if you like it (in that case, please review it and strip the unnecessary comments). See the attachment. |
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Closed by Alexander F. Rødseth (xyproto)
Thursday, 13 November 2014, 13:42 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Thursday, 13 November 2014, 13:42 GMT
Reason for closing: None
lua51 will be moved to AUR eventually (perhaps sooner rather than later) and since no official packages depends on lua-posix, it might make sense to move it to AUR as well.
It's hard to find good arguments for adding lua51-posix as an official package, as long as no other official packages depends on it, and so few unofficial packages depends on it. If you know of a commercial piece of software that is important to people, that needs lua51-posix, it might be an argument for keeping lua51 a bit longer and/or not move lua-posix to AUR and/or add lua51-posix as an official package.