Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping dev-lang/lua:5.2

2021-07-12 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2021-07-09 17:34, William Hubbs wrote: Actually upstream does say when they will stop supporting each version [1]. Um, where? Because I've looked at this page before, I've looked at it again just now and I all can see there is that there will be no further releases of Lua versions up to and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping dev-lang/lua:5.2

2021-07-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 04:49:59PM +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > On 2021-07-09 15:35, William Hubbs wrote: > > >> As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward > >> owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never > >> officially declared end of life

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping dev-lang/lua:5.2

2021-07-09 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2021-07-09 15:35, William Hubbs wrote: As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never officially declared end of life on older versions, Actually upstream does say when they will stop supportin

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping dev-lang/lua:5.2

2021-07-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > Dear everyone, > > As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward > owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never > officially declared end of life on older versions, and on the oth

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dropping dev-lang/lua:5.2

2021-07-09 Thread Marek Szuba
Dear everyone, As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never officially declared end of life on older versions, and on the other dev-lang/luajit has never moved beyond 5.1 with their API support.