[Slackbuilds-users] neovim in search of better maintainer

[Alexander Verbovetsky]

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:04:23PM +0200, Ruben Schuller wrote:
> 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 :)

I always building on a clean chroot. I had the luajit problem (lua: not
enough memory) with the current version also, it's not happen every
time, but happens and rather often.

> Maybe neovim ships it's own luajit, it does ship other lua stuff.

It's a very interesting idea, it doesn't ship with the SlackBuild as it
is now, but maybe it could ship. I'll try to figure it out.

Best regards,
Alexander