Lua 5.2

[Germano Massullo]

Hi, I would like to ask "lua" and "compat-lua" maintainers if it is
possible to have a packaged 5.2 lua version.
A use case? Upstream Darktable ships a bundled Lua version 5.2, and it is
not compatible with Lua 5.3. Fedora's Darktable does not ship the bundled
Lua to respect Fedora packaging rules.

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 08:06, Germano Massullo wrote:
>  Hi, I would like to ask "lua" and "compat-lua"
> maintainers if it is
>  possible to have a packaged 5.2 lua version.
>  A use case? Upstream Darktable ships a bundled Lua version 5.2, and it is
>  not compatible with Lua 5.3. Fedora's Darktable does not ship the bundled
>  Lua to respect Fedora packaging rules. 
If there are no other users of lua-5.2 in Fedora, then you could simply
replace the bundled source with latest upstream (currently 5.2.4) and ship
it bundled (recording the bundling with Provides: bundled(lua) = 5.2.4).

If something else in Fedora still requires lua-5.2.x then the best
option is to package lua52 separately and patch Darktable to use
the system version.

You should also find out if there will be another release of lua-5.2.x
or if 5.2.4 was the last one. If it was the last one, then you'd better
try convincing the Darktable maintainers to migrate to lua-5.3.

Regards,
Dominik
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[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 18-11-15 08:06, Germano Massullo wrote:
>  Hi, I would like to ask "lua" and "compat-lua"
> maintainers if it is
>  possible to have a packaged 5.2 lua version.
>  A use case? Upstream Darktable ships a bundled Lua version 5.2, and it is
>  not compatible with Lua 5.3. Fedora's Darktable does not ship the bundled
>  Lua to respect Fedora packaging rules. 
If Darktable is using 5.2, it is likely being actively maintained
upstream. So you could ask Darktable upstream to move to 5.3 for
some future version and use a bundled 5.2 in the mean time.

compat-lua is mostly used by some somewhat older games who
are not being updated by upstream and which cannot easily
be ported to 5.2.

Regards,

Hans

[Germano Massullo]

2015-11-19 10:51 GMT+01:00 Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com&gt;:

>  Hi,
>
>  On 18-11-15 08:06, Germano Massullo wrote:
>
> > Hi, I would like to ask "lua" and "compat-lua" maintainers if it
> is
> > possible to have a packaged 5.2 lua version.
> > A use case? Upstream Darktable ships a bundled Lua version 5.2, and it is
> > not compatible with Lua 5.3. Fedora's Darktable does not ship the bundled
> > Lua to respect Fedora packaging rules.
> >
>
>  If Darktable is using 5.2, it is likely being actively maintained
>  upstream. So you could ask Darktable upstream to move to 5.3 for
>  some future version and use a bundled 5.2 in the mean time.
>
>  compat-lua is mostly used by some somewhat older games who
>  are not being updated by upstream and which cannot easily
>  be ported to 5.2.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Hans
>  
darktable developers said that the migration to Lua 5.3 has not yet
planned, so I will keep disabled the bundled version