[Fedora-packaging] Lua

[Michel Salim]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> I see a few Lua packages have appeared in the review queue today.
>
>  I checked out the specs and they all seem very clean.  There are a few
>  issues (/usr/lib/lua seems to be unowned in rawhide, although
>  /usr/lib/lua/5.1 is owned by the lua package), the luasql packages
>  leave /usr/lib/lua/5.1/luasql unowned, etc.) but these seem to be
>  minor packaging issues.
>
>  So, we need to decide whether we want to just go ahead with these
>  packages, or whether we want to do the "wait for guidelines" game
>  again.  Is anyone interesting in writing some guidleines?  It seems
>  like they'd be pretty tiny.  Hans, the main Lua package seems to be
>  yours; are you interested in putting something together?
>

Lua SIG, anyone? It's a potentially more exciting language than Python
and Ruby: a properly functional scripting language!

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Michel Salim
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