On 21/07/2016 20:25, Russell Haley wrote: > 3) By forcing all Lua installation to use luaXX naming conventions, it > forces the user to have to create work arounds or links to get the > standard interpreter to work by calling "lua" (which is the expected > use case in my opinion). The current supported version of Lua is 5.3. > While I can see the need to install past versions using explicit > naming, it is my opinion that the current version should be installed > as Lua, not luaXX.
Is there any possibility of needing to install two different versions of
lua simultaneously? Are there lua consumers that require specific
versions[*]?
If that's so, then a better approach here might be be to copy the way
the python ports work: have a lua meta-port which creates appropriate
unversioned symlinks to the executables from the versioned ports.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] As I recall, for instance, redis embeds lua-5.2 -- but that's not
really germane to this because redis has imported all the lua code, and
doesn't have any dependencies on exteranl lua.
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