Great news!
Best,
Scuri
Em seg., 19 de jul. de 2021 às 07:39, sur-behoffski <
sur_behoff...@grouse.com.au> escreveu:
> [This message is on iup-users; an identical, but separate post will
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>
> G'day,
>
> I'm very pleased (and rather exhausted) to announce the release of
> lglicua-0.1-alpha3 on SourceForge. This supersedes and replaces
> -alpha2. The project is at:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/lglicua/
>
> The changes are quite wide-ranging, and are, to a fair extent,
> reviewing and updating scripts that were deemed "good enough" for
> the -alpha2 release, but were candidates for revision after that
> release. This especially includes the "build/", "svn/" and
> workspace "1/play" and "1/support" directories.
>
> -
>
> The biggest news is that the Assistant is closer to supporting
> multiple versions of Lua. However, this is still dependent on the
> Lua binary and library support being installed in the OS, not part
> of the Assistant package tree.
>
> The Assistant has been tested (briefly, via virtual machines) on:
>
> GNU/LinuxMint: 18.3, 19.1, 19.3, 20.1 and ***new*** 20.2;
> Ubuntu:18.04.3, 20.04.2.0, 20.10 and 21.04; and
> CentOS:7.0 only (with Lua 5.1.4 baked-in).
>
> Two new fields in the Assistant database (svn/assistant-database.lua)
> can force the Lua version used for building. This works with
> cross-compiling Lua version (e.g. 5.3 libraries can be produced by a
> Lua 5.1 build system):
>
> $ diff -u assistant-database.lua tt.t
> --- assistant-database.lua 2021-07-17 17:21:12.0 +0930
> +++ tt.t2021-07-19 14:32:50.918324707 +0930
> @@ -410,8 +410,8 @@
> LuaVersionMap = {
> Manifest = {"Pattern", "{LUAVER}", "{LUALIBSFX}"},
> Pattern = "({%u+})",
> -["{LUAVER}"] = "5.1",
> -["{LUALIBSFX}"] = "51",
> +["{LUAVER}"] = "5.3",
> +["{LUALIBSFX}"] = "53",
> },
> TerseFlow = true,
> }
>
> There is a new script in the Workspace: "1/play/version-rocks": This
> script reports the Lua version, and then verbosely tries to install
> Rocks, starting with "std.normalize". This script shows up the
> incompatibilities between the interpreter version and the Rocks
> version.
>
>
>
> Sadly, there remains a significant conflict between the version of
> Lua and the Lua build target of LuaRocks (as strongly suggested, or
> even imposed, by the installer): LuaRocks is built for Lua 5.1 only;
> the Lua 5.3 build can run as long as it does not reference any
> (C code) Rock, but fails with dynamic linker errors such as
> "lua_tointeger not found".
>
> The Assistant stays with Rocks version 3.3.1 for this release; I
> hope to upgrade to 3.7.0 for the next release, and also to look to
> dynamically switching the Rocks database based on the Lua version.
>
>
>
> Other improvements have been curating/refining/pruning loose ends
> in areas such as svn/*.lua, build/*.lua and build/support/*.lua.
>
> Quite a lot of work has gone into PosixExec.lua, adding an "Options"
> table parameter. This is because things like changing work
> directory, setting environment variables and filename globbing
> were cropping up as repeated onerous patterns in the main code, and
> these can now be offloaded to be executed purely in the context of
> the child (after the process fork).
>
>
>
> In closing, Share and Enjoy (yes, it's all MIT-Licensed, as per the
> norm for the Lua ecosystem).
>
> cheers,
>
> sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
> programmer, Grouse Software
>
>
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