On 22/01/2021 14:38, Marek Szuba wrote:
The time has come for the final big push towards widespread deployment on slotted Lua - this monstrosity: https://bugs.gentoo.org/766528 . Many thanks in advance to all the arch testers who will deal with this. Nb. I am happy with this bug being split into several if that makes the tests easier to manage for those who will run them, just keep in mind that the stabilisation commits for an arch should be pushed to the repo over as short a time span as possible - the more spread this is the more annoyed our users might get by the dependency conflicts between slotted and unslotted and dev-lang/lua.
Somewhat belatedly, I am happy to say that the aforementioned monstrosity has been taken care of much faster than I thought it would be and since the 15th of February ALL the (unmasked) packages in the tree which previously depended directly on dev-lang/lua have had at least one stable ebuild migrated to Lua eclasses. Package maintainers, if you haven't done so yet (quite a few people already have) go ahead and remove old versions so that we can finally bid farewell to dev-lang/lua:0.
And to think that this all has happened simply because I wanted to finally enable Lua support in media-gfx/darktable :-)
Thank you SO much, everyone who has taken part in the effort of making Lua in Gentoo great again (sorry, couldn't help myself)! We had this on the agenda for way too long, and in my personal opinion the fact that we are now one of the few Linux (Unix?) distributions which allows the users to freely mix and match Lua versions is an important statement.
-- Marecki
