Re: Lua updates: 5.5 with some consistency

[Ashish SHUKLA]

El 2026-03-08 22:08, Carlo Zancanaro escribió:

Hi Guix,

I've just raised a PR with some changes to the way Lua things are packaged: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6977

If you have any bandwidth to review, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks,

Carlo

[1]: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/2796

Normally I wouldn't mention a PR on the list, but in this case I'm looking for attention on this PR because I don't expect anybody to actually look at it otherwise! I've formed a "lua-team" according to etc/teams.scm, but so far I'm the only person on the team and I can't commit to Guix. I've found that non-team PRs don't get much attention unless I prompt people to look at them, so here's my prompt. To motivate this change: I think our Lua packaging is pretty confusing at the moment. I got a change merged a few weeks ago to fix search paths[1], but things still don't really work how you'd expect because the versions don't match up. Things like "guix shell lua lua-lpeg" lead to lua not being able to find lpeg because "lua-lpeg" is using lua 5.3, but "lua" is lua 5.4. My PR should improve this by making the naming more consistent: "guix shell lua lua-lpeg" will work, as will "guix shell lua@5.3 lua5.3-lpeg". There are some other things in the PR, partly just because if we're going to rebuild a bunch of stuff anyway we might as well upgrade some versions.

Hi,



I've subscribed to the PR.

Thanks!
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Thanks for your work on this. While, I'm not a committer, or Lua enthusiast (per se), it definitely makes it easier to work on Lua projects, and I've a lua project, I would like to package, and I believe this will make it easier.

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