[Fedora-packaging] Time for Lua packaging guidelines?

[Jon Ciesla]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Michel Alexandre Salim
<salimma at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> 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.).
>
> 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.

Thanks in advance!

-J

> Thanks,
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