Re: Add lua to oe-core.

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> 
> I've found that many projects use the lua scripting language.
> I'd like to move it from meta-oe to oe-core:
> 
>  
> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/lua/lua5.1_5.1.5.bb?h=master
> 
> http://www.lua.org/about.html
> 
> lua-5.2.2 is current, see: http://www.lua.org/download.html
> so we'd likely uprev and send that version.
> 
> rpm and lighttpd could (would?) optionally depend on lua.
> 
> oe-core.git $ grep -r lua * | egrep -v 'valuat|valuable|uargp|rpm'
> meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.32.bb:
>               --without-lua \
> 
> Any comments pro or con before we do the uprev, testing and send
> a commit?

2 recipes which would optionally depend on it doesn't make it good
"core" component IMHO.

But uprev, few PACKAGECONFIGs and more testing would be nice.

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com

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