Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of Lua in Gentoo

2016-08-07 Thread William Hubbs
Hi, I spoke with rafaelmartins today, and I have joined him as a co-maintainer for dev-lang/lua. We use it at the office, so I have an interest in taking it forward. My first plan is to find the latest version of Lua and look at the upstream build system to find out what we are doing that they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Status of Lua in Gentoo

2016-08-03 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
Please, consider to check lua overlay for all that problems. And, talking on lua.eclass: I already posted it here for review, and mgorny said "kill it with fire" (because eclass was based on ruby-ng with some magic additions from python eclasses, perl ones and php. Well, it really is a bunch

[gentoo-dev] Status of Lua in Gentoo

2016-08-03 Thread Azamat Hackimov
Hello, everyone! I noticed, that dev-lang/lua in have serious troubles in Gentoo. There no Lua project, which would coordinate support. However, packages that depends on lua-5.2, could not be builds successfully against installed lua:5.1 and lua:5.2 [1][2] Is there any roadmap for transition to