[gentoo-dev] Stabilisation of the slotted-Lua ecosystem

[gentoo-dev] Stabilisation of the slotted-Lua ecosystem

[Marek Szuba]

Ladies and germs,

The time has come for the final big push towards widespread deployment 
on slotted Lua - this monstrosity: https://bugs.gentoo.org/766528 . Many 
thanks in advance to all the arch testers who will deal with this. Nb. I 
am happy with this bug being split into several if that makes the tests 
easier to manage for those who will run them, just keep in mind that the 
stabilisation commits for an arch should be pushed to the repo over as 
short a time span as possible - the more spread this is the more annoyed 
our users might get by the dependency conflicts between slotted and 
unslotted and dev-lang/lua.

-- 
Marecki

Re: [gentoo-dev] Stabilisation of the slotted-Lua ecosystem

[Marek Szuba]

On 22/01/2021 14:38, Marek Szuba wrote:

> The time has come for the final big push towards widespread deployment 
> on slotted Lua - this monstrosity: https://bugs.gentoo.org/766528 . Many 
> thanks in advance to all the arch testers who will deal with this. Nb. I 
> am happy with this bug being split into several if that makes the tests 
> easier to manage for those who will run them, just keep in mind that the 
> stabilisation commits for an arch should be pushed to the repo over as 
> short a time span as possible - the more spread this is the more annoyed 
> our users might get by the dependency conflicts between slotted and 
> unslotted and dev-lang/lua.

Somewhat belatedly, I am happy to say that the aforementioned 
monstrosity has been taken care of much faster than I thought it would 
be and since the 15th of February ALL the (unmasked) packages in the 
tree which previously depended directly on dev-lang/lua have had at 
least one stable ebuild migrated to Lua eclasses. Package maintainers, 
if you haven't done so yet (quite a few people already have) go ahead 
and remove old versions so that we can finally bid farewell to 
dev-lang/lua:0.

And to think that this all has happened simply because I wanted to 
finally enable Lua support in media-gfx/darktable :-)

Thank you SO much, everyone who has taken part in the effort of making 
Lua in Gentoo great again (sorry, couldn't help myself)! We had this on 
the agenda for way too long, and in my personal opinion the fact that we 
are now one of the few Linux (Unix?) distributions which allows the 
users to freely mix and match Lua versions is an important statement.

-- 
Marecki