[pkg-lua-devel] LuaJIT package.path?

[Peter Colberg]

Dear Debian Lua team,

Recently I have been working on a LuaJIT stack of libraries commonly
used in scientific computing (MPI, HDF5, OpenCL), as a productive
alternative to traditional Fortran or C++ programs. As a long-term
goal, it would be great to provide this set of modules in Debian.

All packages [1-3] (with high-level bindings and documentation to
follow soon) make use of LuaJIT's foreign function interface, since it
provides direct and fast access to C data structures. A plugin for GCC
[4] is used to parse the corresponding C header file and generate FFI
C declarations [5].

[1] http://colberg.org/luajit-hdf5/
[2] http://colberg.org/luajit-opencl/
[3] http://colberg.org/luajit-mpi/
[4] http://colberg.org/gcc-lua/
[5] http://colberg.org/gcc-lua-cdecl/

Would you consider adding a LuaJIT-specific package.path, so that such
modules can be provided without interfering with Lua 5.1 or 5.2
installations on the same machine? Currently, package.path only
contains a versioned LuaJIT-only path:

./?.lua;/usr/share/luajit-2.0.2/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua

More generally, do you have specific hints for packaging Lua modules
for Debian, besides following the Introduction to Debian Packaging on
the wiki?

Thanks,
Peter