[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/25] package/Config.in: explain that lua package names should start with lua

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 2 21:50:33 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:00:35 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle
(Essensium/Mind) wrote:
> We have decided that lua packages should have a name that starts with
> lua (like is the case for python and perl). However, we're not going to
> rename all the existing lua packages that don't start with lua. This
> makes it unclear for people adding packages how they should name the
> package, so add a comment to package/Config.in to explain it.

Should we require "lua" as a prefix or "lua-" ? For Perl and Python, we
use "perl-" and "python-" respectively.

We currently have 10 packages that start with "lua-", and 12 that start
with just "lua".

Best regards,

Thomas
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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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