Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] lua.eclass: initial implementation

[David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 15:37 +0200, Marek Szuba wrote:
> Ladies and gentlemen,
> 
> Here is my first attempt on creating an eclass which would handle
> installation of Lua modules for multiple implementations. As some of
> you
> are aware of, the lack of such an eclass has been a major issue for
> our
> efforts on slotting dev-lang/lua.
> 
> With many, many thanks to mgorny and everyone else who has worked on
> python-r1.eclass, to whom lua.eclass bears, ahem, striking
> resemblance.
> 
> At the moment this is only really useful for installing Lua modules
> but
> assuming it doesn't turn out to be a total failure, I'll work on
> single-target support as the next step. We should probably think about
> adding LuaJIT support at some point too.
> 
> Comments are very much welcome!

This is finally going in the right direction. Unfortunately we won't get
around a single-r1-style eclass too. What about all those programs
embedding a specific lua version as plugin architecture? Conversely, we
also won't get around the multi eclass too, given how many upstreams
won't unbundle/port their lua dependencies and require access to pure-
lua packages. But the basic principles underlying your eclass are
finally correct, unlike the previous lua.eclass attempt.