[Iup-users] [ANN] lglicua-0.1-beta2 released...

[sur-behoffski <sur...@gr...>]

G'day,

[This is for iup-users; the same message appears on lua-l.]

My Lua-to-GNU/Linux-LuaRocks-Tecgraf{IM,CD,IUP} project has been
significantly updated, and is available on SourceForge at:

        https://sourceforge.net/projects/lglicua/files/

This is the first release in over a year, and the code has been
updated in various places:

    - Supports Lua 5.4.7.  Uses source compilation, so can provide
      versions of Lua not supported by the Distribution's package
      manager.  More support has been added for
      {static,dynamic}*{C,C++} build variants;

    - Continues to support "continue" experimental patch, e.g.:

            PROJECT/install> ./i lua-install 5.4.7+continue

      Other experimental patches can be added over time;

    - LuaRocks upgraded from 3.9.2 to latest stable 3.11.1;

[Just as an aside, lglicua may be useful just to get
Lua+LuaRocks+various Rocks onto a machine, even where the user has
no interest in the Tecgraf components.]

    - Supports quite a range of GNU/Linux distributions:

        * Debian/Ubuntu family:

            * Debian 12.5;

            * Kali 2024.2;

            * Linux Mint 19.3, 20.3, 21.3 and newly-released 22;

            * MX23.3_ahs_x64;

            * Ubuntu 22.04.4, 23.10 and 24.04; and

        * Red Hat family:

            * CentOS-Core 7;

            * CentOS-Stream 8 and 9;

            * Rocky Linux 8.10, 9.3 and 9.4.

The code has had a brief sanity test (many, many runs across 16
machines, with an attempted full build of major packages from
source, each time code was changed), but hasn't had a thorough
regression test, Valgrind or other stress testing.

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Antonio Scuri has been the manager for the Tecgraf IM/CD/IUP
packages (on SourceForge); I'm not sure of his current
responsibilities within PUC/Rio.

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cheers,

sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
programmer, Grouse Software