On 12 November 2013 13:06, Justin Cormack <jus...@specialbusservice.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote: > >> But AFAIK luaffi is not 100% compatible with the LuaJIT FFI, nor the >> other way around (as I understand there's a compatible subset but >> neither API fully covers the other one)... am I correct? In that case >> providing a generic "ffi" virtual dependency is probably asking for >> later trouble... > > Its getting better since I have started fixing it (in other words it > runs my code now!), but no thats why I think you need alternate deps, > "luaffi or ffi", "bit or bit32". So reall ffi is only provided by > luajit (but bit is also provided by bitop). When they are identical > they can provide the same dependency.
We'll get alternate dependencies eventually, but that's an incompatible change to the format so we can't just add it in a minor release. I was thinking of what we can do for existing LR versions. Lua Workshop will be a great time to brainstorm the necessary changes. -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
