[Buildroot] [UNSURE]Re: [v4 1/2] luainterpreter: create virtual package

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear François Perrad,

On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 12:47:20 +0200, François Perrad wrote:

> Lua 5.2.0 was released on December 2011 (see
> https://raw.github.com/fperrad/graph-versions/gh-pages/slides/lua.png).
> Since this, Lua module authors release new version which are
> compatible 5.1 and 5.2 (not a hard job, differences are small). But
> this process is not fast and not finished.
> 
> So, I think Lua 5.1.x and 5.2.x can be handled by the same package
> with a choice (like gcc, binutils)

Ok. But then Lua packages that are not yet compatible with 5.2.x will
have to be marked "depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_2". Is this what you
had in mind?

Thanks!

Thomas
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