[Slackbuilds-users] neovim in search of better maintainer

[Ruben Schuller]

2023-05-12 Alexander Verbovetsky <alik at ejik.org>:

> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 04:22:48PM +0300, Alexander Verbovetsky wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> This works! So, I'll prepare a new version of neovim.

Great, thanks!

So long
Ruben