[aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator

[Alad Wenter]

On 12/11/18 8:30 PM, Alad Wenter wrote:

> Since the discussion period is about to end without much discussion...
>
> Right now the rate of new applications is very high - about 2 new
> applications per month. That makes a thorough review difficult.
>
> Considering the positive experiences of the sponsor, it would be a shame
> to let a voting period pass. That said, I'm not sure we have sufficient
> information - at present - to proceed with such a voting period in a
> meaningful manner.
>
> So about Foxboron's question for confirmation: "Say one or two people
> confirm they think the voting process should be continued after the
> discussion has ended?" - I don't know.
>
> Alad

Let's try to get the ball rolling by asking some questions.

1. When I look at LUA modules, I see that most are available on
"luarocks", which is apparently a package manager for LUA. Can you
leverage this to make more LUA modules available on Arch?

2. You have some AUR packages for LUA modules of your own making, yet
they hardcode gcc lines instead of using a Makefile. [1] (At least they
respect $CFLAGS and $LDFLAGS, I guess.) Why?

3. I have no idea on what some of your more complicated packages do, or
why they would require said complexity, e.g. iup. [2] Perhaps you could
explain a bit on that regard.

4. Related to the above, there are no current packaging guidelines for
LUA packages. [3] Do you plan on starting an effort (possibly with other
LUA package maintainers) to remedy this?

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=lua-compat53
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=iup
[3]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines#Additional_guidelines

Alad

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