[arch-dev-public] [RFC] The path to lua 5.2

[Sébastien Luttringer]

Hello,

Version 5.2 of lua is out since December 2011 [1] and last update
since June 2012.

I suggest[2] to update our current lua package to 5.2.1 and introduce
a new package lua51.
As we need to rebuild and update dependencies of some packages, we can
benefits to adopt a clean naming (like for python) for lua libraries
like
- lua-lfs for lua 5.2 version, where "lfs" is the name in the lua require.
- lua51-lfs for 5.1 version.
for current package lua-filesystem.

Example:
pkgbase=luafilsystem
pkgname=(lua-lfs lua-lfs51)

The goal is to drop lua51* package once all package will only needs lua 5.2.

I currently have a lua (v5.2.1) and lua51 (v5.1.5) packages on my
computer which works correctly.

The following packages are out of my hands:
seblu at brynhild ~ $ for i in extra testing; do sogrep $i lua.so; done
celestia
gnuplot
graphviz
gvim
lighttpd
nmap
pdns-recursor
rrdtool
vlc
weechat
wireshark-cli

seblu at brynhild ~ $ for i in community community-testing ; do sogrep $i
lua.so; done
awesome
btanks
cegui
edje-svn
electricsheep
elinks
fillets-ng
geany-plugins
grafx2
hedgewars
highlight
highlight-gui
libquvi
luabind
lua-zlib
megaglest
notion
stone-soup
task
widelands
xmoto
widelands

As there is not so many packages to update in community, I can do it
myself. I need some helps for those in extra/core.

Comments? Objections?

[1] http://www.lua.org/versions.html#5.2
[2] I'm not a lua expert, I use it only with awesome, so please tell
me if you see something bad.

-- 
Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
www.seblu.net