[Slackbuilds-users] Lua 5.4 upgrade

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024, Heiko Rosemann via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> Unfortunately, I'm traveling this coming week with very limited internet connectivity. I probably cannot test awesome and lgi before Saturday, Nov 2, but I'll get to it as soon as I
> can (I use it as my WM, so if it fails to run, I won't be able to use my machine at all before I fix it...)

The good news about lgi and awesome: they already work with lua 5.1,
and my modified versions build with the lua51 package (still 5.1),
so it's really just the package name in REQUIRES that changed (and a
couple of -DLUA_* cmake options to make awesome use lua 5.1).

lgi and awesome didn't want to build against lua 5.4. At some point,
after the branch is merged, it might be that you'd want to try to make
them work with 5.4... but if not (or if its impossible), they can keep
using lua51. That's not going to disappear.

Possibly interesting: I did manage to build lgi and awesome against
luajit, during testing. Not sure there's any point in doing that
though.