[Slackbuilds-users] neovim in search of better maintainer

[Ruben Schuller]

2023-05-11 Alexander Verbovetsky <alik at ejik.org>:

> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Ruben Schuller wrote:
> > 2023-05-10 Alexander Verbovetsky <alik at ejik.org>:
> >  
> > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:44:57PM +0200, Ruben Schuller wrote:  
> > > > I constantly miss neovim updates as I don't really use it
> > > > anymore. If someone is interested in taking it, _please_ do so!
> > > >  
> > >
> > > I use it and I'd like to take it, but to update it one needs to
> > > update luajit to version 2.1.0_beta3.
> > >
> > > (Note that this is not a bleeding edge release, both versions
> > > 2.0.5 and 2.1.0_beta3 appeared six years ago.)
> > >
> > > Without this upgrade, I don't see how I can maintain neovim.  
> >
> > Didn't stumble upon this problem as I never tried to update recently
> > :P I can't do anything about the luajit SlackBuild though, except
> > for CCing the maintainer here.  
> 
> I can't do anything about it either. Neovim's upstream changed the
> luajit version with release 0.5.0 two years ago. In fact, according to
> repology, all major distributions moved to luajit 2.1.0_beta3, so this
> should be safe.

Have you tried to build neovim on a clean machine? The current version
on SBo is 0.8.1 .. I'm a bit confused now :) Maybe neovim ships
it's own luajit, it does ship other lua stuff.

Cheers
Ruben