RPM 5 currently still ships with a copy of an ancient Lua version 5.0.2
from 2004 while the current Lua version from 2007 is already Lua 5.1.2.
I've prepared an upgrade of lua/ from 5.0.2 to 5.1.2 together with small
rpmio/rpmlua.c adjustments (the Lua API has changed) and some cleanups
in lua/local/ (the name "local/linit.c" is confused by Automake with the
top-level linit.c etc). The stuff seems to still work...
| $ ./rpm --eval '%{lua: print(7 + 42); }'
| 49
|
...but I've still not done any deeper testing as I don't know whether
we have some real tests at hand for the RPM Lua stuff. Before I commit
the upgrade and "Break Everything" (tm) ;-), does anybody have any
objections?
PS: Yes, the upgrade as a side-effects destroys Jeff's old splint(1)
annoations in lua/ -- I really don't want to repeat all the
annotations or even merge all of them manually into the largely
changed Lua sources. But to be honest, I don't think RPM should do
any linting in third-party code at all. This is the task of the
third-party vendor, we should really just ship a copy of the code
and at maximum edit in our local semantics modifications. Linting
and debugging third-party code is IMHO really not our job here...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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