[gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan

2017-07-03 Thread Martin Vaeth
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/18519 > > That reply is from 2005 and is apparently specific to (32-bit) x86's Even more is true! The only argument there concerns pic. But most distributions (hopefully also gentoo in a not-so-distant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan

2017-07-02 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 10:30:12 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > All that said, in FLOSS, he who volunteers, makes the rules, and > > particularly given the upstream opposition meaning more gentoo-level work > > required, if there's nobody willing to support lua in gentoo with dynamic > > linking

[gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan

2017-07-02 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Sun, 02 Jul 2017 10:30:12 -0500 as excerpted: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:55:54AM +, Duncan wrote: >> William Hubbs posted on Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:53:59 -0500 as excerpted: >> >> > See this article for why using liblua as a shared library is not >> > recommended. >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan

2017-07-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:55:54AM +, Duncan wrote: > William Hubbs posted on Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:53:59 -0500 as excerpted: > > > See this article for why using liblua as a shared library is not > > recommended. > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/18519 > > > > Yes,

[gentoo-dev] Re: lua upgrade plan

2017-07-01 Thread Duncan
William Hubbs posted on Sat, 01 Jul 2017 11:53:59 -0500 as excerpted: > See this article for why using liblua as a shared library is not > recommended. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/18519 > > Yes, it talks about the interpretor, but it goes further and really > discour