lua 5.2

[Craig Barnes]

Just forwarding this reply. I sent it to Alek directly but my
CC to the list got bounced due to me not being subscribed.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85 at gmail.com>
Date: 13 May 2013 21:19
Subject: Re: lua 5.2
To: Alek Paunov <alex at declera.com>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>


On 12 May 2013 01:27, Alek Paunov <alex at declera.com> wrote:

> Personally, I not have learned all of the guidelines yet and do not feel ready to make proper reviews of other packages ( besides my recent hard times with bunch of stalled tasks :-( ), but there are another unofficial spec [4] and if Craig is willing to become leading maintainer I will be happy to apply as co-maintainer (not because package requires additional care, but as help with the bugs processing duties, if any). @Craig what you think?
>
> [4] https://github.com/craigbarnes/packages/blob/master/luajit.spec
>

I'm more than willing to maintain LuaJIT for Fedora but I
haven't been sponsored as a packager yet. I submitted
a package (discount) about 18 months ago, along with a
sponsorship request but it's still awaiting formal review.

> So, may be Fedora transition to 5.2 is the right moment for LuaJIT to be finally included in the collection (with an additional role as lua51-compat package - alternative provider of lua(abi) = 5.1 on all architectures except s390 and ppc64).
>

Some Lua C modules implement support for both ABIs by using
compile-time macros and so won't be loadable by both at runtime.
Quite a few Lua packages will probably need some attention/patching
and all of them could probably use some testing after such a change.
I'd like to help with that too, but without sponsorship or guidance
I don't really know where to start or what the procedure is.


Regards,
Craig