[Geany-Devel] GeanyLua compatiblity with Lua > 5.2

[Lex Trotman]

On 25 April 2015 at 13:22, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at 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
>
>
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