On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Vincent Cheng wrote: > First of all, thanks for volunteering to package and maintain > premake4! One of my packages (0ad) actually uses an embedded copy of > premake, which I would like to switch to using a system version if > possible, but of course premake4 isn't yet available in Debian...
Why is 0ad upstream embedding premake4? Wow, premake4 itself embeds a copy of lua. > Premake4 is backwards incompatible with earlier versions, which is why > upstream renamed the binary. It also looks for a different input file > (premake4.lua instead of premake.lua, in the same sense that cmake > looks for CMakeLists.txt and scons looks for Sconstruct in the current > directory). > > In light of this, I suggest having two separate source packages, i.e. > src:premake and src:premake4. I say "suggest" instead of something > stronger because a) no package currently in the archive build-depends > on premake, so nothing's going to FTBFS, and b) I don't know if > upstream even maintains the older 3.x version anymore. I would also suggest to upload premake 4 as source premake4 and binary premake4, probably before wheezy is released. The premake source/binary packages can be removed after the release or later if needed. > According to build-rdeps, none. Presumably because there are packages > like 0ad which use an embedded copy of premake. (That, or because > premake is nowhere as popular as e.g. cmake or scons.) According to apt-file -a source search premake: cegui-mk has a bunch of stuff for premake 3. liblo, p7zip and p7zip-rar have a premake4.lua nyquist and ode embed premake4.exe (WTF?) and have a premake4.lua wxsqlite3 has premake/wxwidgets.lua -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6EiAVY7L=G0=ndte0s7uyswgrtuepkwyljgkg2qttq...@mail.gmail.com
