Orphaned Lua

aKriJcz · 2015-05-01 19:06:07

Hello,

I would like to ask if anyone could adopt and update Lua package in extra repo. It is flagged out of date for a while now and Lua 5.3 has some nice features. Moreover, I am really surprised that package is orphaned - why? I think that official interpreters (or compilers) should really be maintained even for languages which are not "mainstream".

Thanks

anatolik · 2015-05-01 21:06:07

My understanding is that many 5.2 packages are incompatible 5.3. Lua rarely keeps backward compatibility as primary goal.

aKriJcz · 2015-05-02 09:21:16

That's what I thought and feared. But still it seems strange to me, that Lua package is orphaned. This way it looks like it won't be updated for a really long time . But Lua 5.3 is somewhat new so I should just give it a time. At least there is a package in AUR. Maybe I should vote .

anatolik · 2015-05-02 14:24:03

It will be definitely updated some day. Somebody should just bite the bullet and start process of updating all the lua packages.

anatolik · 2015-05-12 01:06:38

Lua 5.3 just landed to [testing]. If you have time please enable [testing] repository and report any issues related to this Lua5.3 migration.

aKriJcz · 2015-05-17 09:06:45

I would like to test new version, but I am afraid that time is really precious for me now. It seems that I won't have time for any programming for a while... Sorry

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Orphaned Lua

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