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

[Peter Colberg]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:21:13PM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> Wow!  Do your plans include the debian packaging?  I'd love that.

Thanks, that is motivating! Yes, I would like to do the packacking.

> Sure, the current dh_lua is easy to patch so that luajit is considered
> as a Lua flavour, and having a private luajit path makes sense given
> that the ffi is not available in Lua.  But I think we should discuss on
> the luajim mailing list a standard name for this private path...  Would
> you start a thread there?

I started a thread [1] to discuss a cross-distribution LuaJIT module path.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luajit/3597

> If you plan to make luajit only modules, then I have to fix dh_lua
> first (that currently supports only lua5.1 and lua5.2).  The reference
> is the tentative lua policy here: http://pkg-lua.alioth.debian.org/

dh-lua seems very useful upon first reading, especially the testing.

To begin with the simple things: Should I prefix the gcc-lua* packages
with lua-, i.e. lua-gcc-lua[-dev] and lua-gcc-lua-cdecl[-dev]? The
first one is a plugin that adds a Lua interpreter to GCC, and the
second one is useful only when loaded into that environment.

> For pure FFI modules, I guess it is easy once dh_lua has been fixed.
> You can start by creating an account on alioth.debian.org, there we can
> share a git repository for the packaging.

Ok, I made an account on alioth.

Later, where should I put the package repositories for your review?

Regards,
Peter