Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-03 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 03:12:00AM +0700, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > By the way, it will also brake some proprietary games, that distributes via > steam, humble, gog and so on. > > Some of them depends on shared lua and doesn't bundle it (instead, their > installer calls apt (since they'

Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-02 Thread M. J. Everitt
On 02/07/17 21:12, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > By the way, it will also brake some proprietary games, that distributes via > steam, humble, gog and so on. > > Some of them depends on shared lua and doesn't bundle it (instead, their > installer calls apt (since they're doing games for ubunt

Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-02 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
By the way, it will also brake some proprietary games, that distributes via steam, humble, gog and so on. Some of them depends on shared lua and doesn't bundle it (instead, their installer calls apt (since they're doing games for ubuntu), but since we have no apt, we (gamerlay/games team) just

Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 01:16:02PM +0500, Azamat Hackimov wrote: > 2017-06-30 22:16 GMT+05:00 William Hubbs : > > > All, > > > > Upstream does not support liblua as a shared library, and they do not > > support installing multiple versions of lua onto a system. After > > conferring with the other

Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-01 Thread Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
> excellent LuaDist I'd not say it is excellent :( I'd rather say "NIH-syndromed" > Why Lua can't have same eclass as multislotted Python or Ruby? > Lua ecosystem not so big, about 500 packages > so why there no even little efforts to make Lua support in Gentoo better? Well... Actually, it doe

Re: [gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-07-01 Thread Azamat Hackimov
2017-06-30 22:16 GMT+05:00 William Hubbs : > All, > > Upstream does not support liblua as a shared library, and they do not > support installing multiple versions of lua onto a system. After > conferring with the other lua maintainer, the decision has been made to > remove this custom support from

[gentoo-dev] lua upgrade plan

2017-06-30 Thread William Hubbs
All, lua has been behind in Gentoo for a while, but I have time now to start working on fixing that this coming week, so consider this a heads-up that things are going to start happening with regards to dev-lang/lua and its dependencies. Upstream does not support liblua as a shared library, and t