From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27EB3139694 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 03:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42CDF214008; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 03:32:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E9CC7214004 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 03:32:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [46.148.232.243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bircoph) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 79A36341869 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2017 03:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 06:32:49 +0300 From: Andrew Savchenko To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan Message-Id: <20170703063249.532b2819803bb2516b2b25a1@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20170702153012.GA32505@linux1.home> References: <20170630171606.GA7044@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <20170701165359.GB13095@linux1.home> <20170702153012.GA32505@linux1.home> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA512"; boundary="Signature=_Mon__3_Jul_2017_06_32_49_+0300_kuGdZp68s2YKezxl" X-Archives-Salt: a46012dd-a7ee-4204-93dd-5f88eb5bcb68 X-Archives-Hash: a2c3a04ee40baa92a12e8bc571424254 --Signature=_Mon__3_Jul_2017_06_32_49_+0300_kuGdZp68s2YKezxl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:30:12 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > All that said, in FLOSS, he who volunteers, makes the rules, and=20 > > particularly given the upstream opposition meaning more gentoo-level wo= rk=20 > > required, if there's nobody willing to support lua in gentoo with dynam= ic=20 > > linking... > =20 > You are correct. Basically we have to write our own build system and > keep it up to date for every version of lua in order to support this.=20 Why should we? We can borrow from other distributions like Debian or Fedora. Of course some Gentoo-specific tuning may be required, but it will be not writing from scratch. > If someone can convince upstream to support it, this would be far better = for > everyone. In the ideal world, yes, I agree with this. But we are in real world with real lua developers unwilling to cooperate from what I see. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko --Signature=_Mon__3_Jul_2017_06_32_49_+0300_kuGdZp68s2YKezxl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE63ZIHsdeM+1XgNer9lNaM7oe5I0FAllZuuEACgkQ9lNaM7oe 5I2YixAAg2hYnJyQ/CuXP9HfU5n7IERP9jgNo5yPZUxOtzDdpHHuXtV4/9omtRvg g/s5VPhCYudzDoGW4HaNCN650jmgMqB1rKeDwcZFmKilSLCH5bRh93o6IYzGWL4n noGs4XqKVFMHzgbZpiILV7hLGXorqbvLIhQsh+IbFAjGeyjXB2tPkObI510ogK+n amY2KC8zTdvpS0MLLmahvlZotjLoZRBapDgrQ3DDH9xcUJb2ztFOXFjcZzesIv6a v+EZhJ6kmDVY2OSEOpnlvlMfQOYljiZZ5jqCS4ygCw7RcyWX+AMV9R6/z3OKVYZv 1JIXG3JhCgmWATY+4z35+cIO925fFOo/T+G3ldmdRjTW0By0/jRqtfh6NIA08/94 caz0GUPV+6NIk3cVRMMS9RoYRAI8drIgY+3BC6XP4U3eolSqg1cUSjkRJxZ3NIT7 rL8yUdZWfXjRNsB9rHj1kO8J2sov4yYeB4lA4UEswH6N7/ZUciT2sphp0vd2fHYa 3obtVoaKVOBUatwXjRNlXWoJpDVFkWZpe2pjwEvQLT9/qsaT6MzySBbj7dTgML0U Pz+H0RMC9KytCdEYoNffynzdWW3fCYDrdXR6mlwSNFxHQh+SibIFwGClN54t4Ise HyMa1lxc2iBe1pnuOzW+1lfiYmLC1LkqtroY0KV3SNFEwk3Awe4= =pTDD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__3_Jul_2017_06_32_49_+0300_kuGdZp68s2YKezxl--