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 BE0F8139694 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2017 12:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48CD8274030; Sat, 1 Jul 2017 12:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from forward2p.cmail.yandex.net (forward2p.cmail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1465::12]) (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 E6D13234038 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2017 12:18:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2p.mail.yandex.net (smtp2p.mail.yandex.net [77.88.29.85]) by forward2p.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 8F84620D36 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2017 15:18:55 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp2p.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 6E38E1A80053 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2017 15:18:54 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp2p.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id qwqkYFWNSb-Isf0O4cC; Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:18:54 +0300 (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 0 From: "Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2017 19:18:52 +0700 Message-ID: <8562962.727qAuigD7@note> In-Reply-To: References: <20170630171606.GA7044@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: be7a6a0a-7905-4865-9426-ebd83c0963ee X-Archives-Hash: 1b98a517aab9dea6ba4577ae993f2e8a > excellent LuaDist I'd not say it is excellent :( I'd rather say "NIH-syndromed" > 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? Well... Actually, it does. In Lua overlay. But mgorny (?) had a bunch of critics about it, so I just keeping it in Lua overlay and not proposing it to the gentoo repo anymore (I just have not enough time to rewrite it in the way it will pass mgorny's review :).