Another thought, Dominic, does Fedora *ONLY* provide 5.3? Surely it would provide both 5.3 and 5.2 like Debian/Ubuntu (which also still provides 5.1), so the new maintainer would only need to ensure the right one is selected by the <shudder>autotools and waf</shudder> build systems.
Cheers Lex On 25 April 2015 at 13:43, Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 April 2015 at 13:22, Colomban Wendling <lists....@herbesfolles.org> > wrote: >> Le 24/04/2015 23:31, Dominic Hopf a écrit : >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I've noticed the GeanyLua plugin does not build with Lua versions >>> greater than 5.2. I've stumbled over this since I updated to the >>> current version of Fedora 22 Beta which is with Lua 5.3.0 already. >>> >>> Is someone able to fix the issues and make the plugin compatible with >>> Lua versions greater than 5.2? Otherwise it will be quite a pity since >>> I would have to disable the plugin in the Geany Plugins Fedora package >>> then. >> >> IIRC I quickly tried and saw the API change in some non-obvious manner, >> meaning one willing to fix it would probably need reasonable knowledge >> of the Lua API, or at least being willing to learn some of it. And I'm >> afraid we ain't got no one like that currently. > > The new maintainer might find it appropriate to compile Lua into the > plugin, its not very big and is MIT license. > > Cheers > Lex > > >> >> BTW, the plugin is lacking a maintainer for quite some time now >> (probably like 5 years), so I do not expect it to last forever unless >> someone is willing to step up for it. We did the bare housekeeping on >> it as much as we could, but that's all. >> >> So yeah, if anyone wishing to keep on using this plugin should consider >> helping maintaining it, it really needs some love from time to time. >> >> Regards, >> Colomban >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.geany.org >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel >> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel