[aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator

[Sebastian Pokora]

wt., 11.12.2018, 20:45: Alad Wenter via aur-general <
aur-general at archlinux.org> napisał(a):

> 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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