[Slackbuilds-users] Lua 5.4 upgrade

[B. Watson]

For the past 2 weeks, the SBo team has been working on upgrading SBo's
lua package to Lua 5.4, to match Slackware-current's recent addition
of a lua package.

To make this work, a lot of scripts needed surgery. The result (or
actually the work in progress) is in the lua54-fixes git branch.

Major changes:

- lua has been upgraded to 5.4.
- lua 5.1 still exists, under the name lua51.
- lua52 and lua53 have been removed.
- all builds that used to use lua (5.1) now use either lua 5.4, or lua51,
   or in a few cases luajit, for things that just won't work with 5.4.

If you maintain anything that depends on lua, lua52, or lua53, you
should check out the lua54-fixes branch, build your packages, and make
sure they work correctly.

I'm in the process of run-testing everything I'm able to (not just
build the package, but install and use it), but there are a few
things I can't test because they require hardware I don't have (e.g
roccat-tools and lxi-tools), or because they require more time/effort
to learn how to use, than I have available currently (e.g. prosody
and pdns).

The builds affected are listed here:

https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=lua

https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=lua52

https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=revdep&q=lua53

If you see your build(s) there, please test the lua54-fixes versions
of them. Builds that mention lua/lua52/lua53 as optional in their READMEs
aren't listed here, but those should be checked too, if you have any.

If you're not familiar with git, you can get the modified builds by
doing this:

git clone https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds sboluatest
cd sboluatest
git checkout lua54-fixes

If you use sbopkg or sbotools, you can also configure those to use
the lua54-fixes branch (see the documentation, I don't use sbopkg or
sbotools often enough to write a how-to here).

It'd be best to do your testing on a clean install of Slackware 15.0,
possibly a VM or chroot. If you can't do this, you should at least
removepkg lua, lua52, lua53, and anything that you may have installed
that uses lua/lua52/lua53. Start out by building the updated lua (you
should end up with a package called lua-5.4.7-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz) and
the new lua51 package, then move on to your packages.

If you have any build errors, I'd really like to hear about them. I
don't *think* that should happen (I'm almost 100% certain that
everything I modifed will at least *build*). If it happens, please
send mail to the mailing list, with the build log.

If everything builds OK, but then doesn't actually work properly after
you install and run it, we really need to hear from you on the mailing
list.

If everything tests out OK, please let the list know that, too.

If you want to use the github discussion mentioned in Willy's update
email, you can, but *also* send your reports to this mailing list. I'm
not the only one working on this, but I've done about 95% of the work,
and I'm coordinating it. I don't have (nor want) a github account, for
various reasons, so please use the mailing list.

If there are no issues, or if there are issues that can be fixed this
week, the plan is to merge the lua54-fixes branch as part of next
week's update, which should happen Friday, November 1. If there are
problems that can't be fixed by then, we'll delay the merge until the
8th, or even the 15th if need be.