Lua 5.2

Germano Massullo germano.massullo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 10:07:37 UTC 2015


2015-11-19 10:51 GMT+01:00 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>:

> 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
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