[Fedora-packaging] Time for Lua packaging guidelines?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 02/21/2012 04:54 PM, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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> Dear Lua SIG and packaging folks,
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> On 02/02/2012 03:11 PM, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim
>> <salimma at fedoraproject.org>  wrote: Hi all,
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>> As we start accumulating more Lua packages in our repository, is
>> it perhaps time to start working on Lua packaging guidelines
>> (similar to one for Python, Ocaml etc.).
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>> There are ongoing reviews for lutok and datalog, in particular,
>> where a guideline on package naming would be useful. A rule saying
>> "use lua- prefix unless package starts with lu / lua", similar to
>> what we have for Python, would cover lutok, for example (but not
>> datalog).
>>
>> Has anyone started on something like this? Searching the wiki for
>> Lua does not turn up any draft packaging guidelines. I can start
>> one if people are interested.
>>
>>> That would be excellent.  If you could also reach out to other
>>> packagers that you know work with lua a lot for their input, and
>>> include rationales for thing, problems they solve/prevent, etc,
>>> and submit a draft, FPC will have a look.
>>
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> I've posted an initial draft here:
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>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Lua
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> - -- please discuss proposed changes in the discussion tab.
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> I plan to look further into the LuaRocks situation once I have a bit
> more time (sometime after next week) and make that section more
> fleshed out before submitting this to FPC.

Just FWIW, it shouldn't be hard at all to create a drop-in automatic 
dependency generator for the lua(abi) requires (and provides for that 
matter), similarly to what's done for python(abi) dependencies.

	- Panu -