[Fedora-packaging] Time for Lua packaging guidelines?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

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Dear Lua SIG and packaging folks,

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,
> 
> 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.
> 

I've posted an initial draft here:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Lua

- -- please discuss proposed changes in the discussion tab.

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.

Best regards,

- -- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/

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