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Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024, at 11:57, Daurnimator wrote:
> Sadly, it appears that Peter has passed away (found out via 
> http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2024-September/024585.html)
>
> Vale Peter

That is sad news indeed. Thx for sharing.

fwiw; his code is now on Lunar Modules https://github.com/lunarmodules/pjb_lua

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Daurnimator <qu...@da...>]

Sadly, it appears that Peter has passed away (found out via 
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2024-September/024585.html)

Vale Peter

On 31/10/23 08:49, Peter Billam wrote:
> Hi Thijs,
> 
> I am pleased to confirm that I am ok with you, (Thijs Schreijer,
> Github user Tieske), taking over my account.
> I hope you will then make sure you can hand over the repositories
> http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam <http://luarocks.org/modules/ 
> peterbillam>
> to the Lunar Modules organization.
> 
> ( I hope this email helps ! )
> 
> Peter
> 
> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au> pet...@fa... 
> <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, at 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers 
> wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, 
>> with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your 
>> account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over 
>> the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also 
>> fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far 
>> (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).
>>
>> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Thijs
>>
>>
>>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>>>
>>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>>> fr...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...>top...@fa... 
>>> <mailto:pet...@fa...>and I can't
>>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>>>
>>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>>>
>>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>>> http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam <http://luarocks.org/modules/ 
>>> peterbillam>
>>> available.
>>>
>>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/> pet...@fa... 
>>> <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>>> Lua...@li... <mailto:Luarocks- 
>>> dev...@li...>
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers 
>>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers>
>>
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>> dev...@li...>
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>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers>
>>
> 
> 
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Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, at 21:47, Peter Billam wrote:
> Thijs wrote:
> > I imported the code into a github repo; https://github.com/Tieske/pjb_lua.
> 
> Great. 
> Please import their man pages as well, from
>   http://peterbillam.fastmail.com.user.fm/comp/index.html

Where is the source of those pages? or are they edited as html?

Regards
Thijs

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Thijs wrote:
> I imported the code into a github repo; https://github.com/Tieske/pjb_lua.

Great. 
Please import their man pages as well, from
  http://peterbillam.fastmail.com.user.fm/comp/index.html

Peter

https://peterbillam.neocities.org/   pet...@fa...  (03) 6278 9410

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023, at 00:28, Thijs Schreijer wrote:
> Since I did not get any response, I imported the code into a github repo; https://github.com/Tieske/pjb_lua.
> 
> I'll need to look into the individual modules and then split them out to separate repo's, and then migrate the to Lunar Modules.
> 
> That will most likely take some time, but for now the code remains available.
> 
> regards
> thijs
> 

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

Since I did not get any response, I imported the code into a github repo; https://github.com/Tieske/pjb_lua.

I'll need to look into the individual modules and then split them out to separate repo's, and then migrate the to Lunar Modules.

That will most likely take some time, but for now the code remains available.

regards
thijs



On Thu, 9 Nov 2023, at 11:28, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
> Github has a policy and indeed, as you mentioned they require formal 
> stuff (they responded to a support request). But Github has only old 
> repo’s migrated to Gitlab, where the current code lives.
>
> Gitlab has however not responded at all (they also do not have a policy 
> for this). I’ll give them some more time, and then I'll try again.
>
>
>
>> On 8 Nov 2023, at 00:36, Daurnimator <qu...@da...> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Thijs, Peter,
>> 
>> Sorry to hear that you're not doing well.
>> 
>> I recall that we failed to migrate many of mpeterv's repositories to luarocks/lunarmodules, as github demanded a death certificate/power of attorney to touch it.
>> 
>> @Thijs, do you have any process in mind here when contacting github?
>> 
>> D
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 31/10/23 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).
>>> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Thijs
>>>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>>>> 
>>>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>>>> fr...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...>top...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>and I can't
>>>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>>>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>>>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>>>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>>>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>>>> 
>>>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>>>> http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam <http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam>
>>>> available.
>>>> 
>>>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>>>> 
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>>>> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/> pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>>>> Lua...@li... <mailto:Lua...@li...>
>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> Lua...@li...
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
>> 
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

Github has a policy and indeed, as you mentioned they require formal stuff (they responded to a support request). But Github has only old repo’s migrated to Gitlab, where the current code lives.

Gitlab has however not responded at all (they also do not have a policy for this). I’ll give them some more time, and then I'll try again.



> On 8 Nov 2023, at 00:36, Daurnimator <qu...@da...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thijs, Peter,
> 
> Sorry to hear that you're not doing well.
> 
> I recall that we failed to migrate many of mpeterv's repositories to luarocks/lunarmodules, as github demanded a death certificate/power of attorney to touch it.
> 
> @Thijs, do you have any process in mind here when contacting github?
> 
> D
> 
> 
> 
> On 31/10/23 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).
>> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
>> Kind regards,
>> Thijs
>>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>>> 
>>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>>> fr...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...>top...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>and I can't
>>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>>> 
>>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>>> 
>>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>>> http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam <http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam>
>>> available.
>>> 
>>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/> pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>>> Lua...@li... <mailto:Lua...@li...>
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>> Lua...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
> 

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Daurnimator <qu...@da...>]

Hi Thijs, Peter,

Sorry to hear that you're not doing well.

I recall that we failed to migrate many of mpeterv's repositories to 
luarocks/lunarmodules, as github demanded a death certificate/power of 
attorney to touch it.

@Thijs, do you have any process in mind here when contacting github?

D



On 31/10/23 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with 
> me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by 
> replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the 
> repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, 
> I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is 
> all publicly available in the archive anyway).
> 
> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Thijs
> 
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>>
>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>>
>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>> fr...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...>top...@fa... 
>> <mailto:pet...@fa...>and I can't
>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>>
>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>>
>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>> http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam 
>> <http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam>
>> available.
>>
>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/> pet...@fa... 
>> <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
>> _______________________________________________
>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>> Lua...@li... 
>> <mailto:Lua...@li...>
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers 
>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers>
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

Hi Peter,

Thank you. I have contacted both Github and Gitlab with the transfer request.
I will make sure to get the repositories under the Lunar Modules org.

Kind regards
Thijs

> On 30 Oct 2023, at 22:49, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Thijs,
> 
> I am pleased to confirm that I am ok with you, (Thijs Schreijer,
> Github user Tieske), taking over my account.
> I hope you will then make sure you can hand over the repositories
>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
> to the Lunar Modules organization.
> 
> ( I hope this email helps ! )
> 
> Peter
> 
> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/>   pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
> 
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, at 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).
>> 
>> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Thijs
>> 
>> 
>>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>>> 
>>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>>> from pj...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...> to pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...> and I can't
>>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>>> 
>>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>>> 
>>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>>>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
>>> available.
>>> 
>>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/>   pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>>> Lua...@li... <mailto:Lua...@li...>
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>> Lua...@li... <mailto:Lua...@li...>
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Hi Thijs,

I am pleased to confirm that I am ok with you, (Thijs Schreijer,
Github user Tieske), taking over my account.
I hope you will then make sure you can hand over the repositories
  http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
to the Lunar Modules organization.

( I hope this email helps ! )

Peter

https://pjb.com.au   pet...@fa...   (03) 6278 9410

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, at 08:32, Thijs Schreijer via Luarocks-developers wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).
> 
> I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Thijs
> 
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
>> 
>> Thijs, luarocks-developers
>> 
>> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
>> from pj...@pj... to pet...@fa... and I can't
>> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
>> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
>> 
>> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
>> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
>> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
>> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
>> 
>> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
>> available.
>> 
>> I wish I could be more helpful !
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> https://pjb.com.au   pet...@fa...   (03) 6278 9410
>> _______________________________________________
>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>> Lua...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
> 

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

Hi Peter,

I’ll contact their support. Can you please confirm that you are ok, with me (Thijs Schreijer,  Github user Tieske), taking over your account by replying on this email. Then I will make sure we hand over the repositories to the Lunar Modules organization. If you don’t also fine, I’ll contact them based on the conversation we’ve had so far (which is all publicly available in the archive anyway).

I wish you all the best with whatever time you have left.

Kind regards,
Thijs


> On 30 Oct 2023, at 21:51, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...> wrote:
> 
> Thijs, luarocks-developers
> 
> I can't log in to github because my email has changed
> from pj...@pj... <mailto:pj...@pj...> to pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...> and I can't
> find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
> When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.
> 
> I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
> something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
> please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
> I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.
> 
> I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
> available.
> 
> I wish I could be more helpful !
> 
> Peter
> 
> https://pjb.com.au <https://pjb.com.au/>   pet...@fa... <mailto:pet...@fa...>   (03) 6278 9410
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li... <mailto:Lua...@li...>
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Thijs, luarocks-developers

I can't log in to github because my email has changed
from pj...@pj... to pet...@fa... and I can't
find a way to change github's idea of what my email address is.
When I try, it just sends please-confirm emails to my former address.

I'm close to dying, and this kind of trouble is
something I really can't handle any more. I ask you:
please could someone else start the discussion, noting the fact that
I totally support moving my modules over to LunarModules.

I also totally support any other solution which would keep these modules
  http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
available.

I wish I could be more helpful !

Peter

https://pjb.com.au   pet...@fa...   (03) 6278 9410

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

@Peter if you’re interested to move the modules over to LunarModules, then I suggest you start a discussion there; https://github.com/orgs/lunarmodules/discussions 

regards
Thijs


> On 25 Oct 2023, at 11:38, Thijs Schreijer <th...@th...> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023, at 07:48, Peter Billam wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Two things:
>> 
>> If I want to change the rockspec, but not change the tar.gz at all and
>> not change the version number, there's a way to do that, isn't there ?
>> Do I make that rockspec change and upload it all to to luarocks.org ?
>> Do I upload the rockspec only, or the whole tar.gz as normal ?
>> 
>> I'm 75 and not expecting to last very long.
>> I would love other lua-people to take over ownership of my modules ...
>>  http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
>> .. and their man pages, seeing that pjb.com.au will vanish
>> when I stop paying my bills ...
>> Volunteers ?
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> https://pjb.com.au      https://peterbillam.gitlab.io/pjb_lua/
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Luarocks-developers mailing list
>> Lua...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
>> 
> 
> As Tomas mentioned, we might port them to LunarModules, set up a team there so anyone interested can simply join the team. Though the modules seem to have varying uses, looking at their download stats.
> 
> Also, from the looks of it many modules seem related? Normally we set up 1 team per repo. But if modules are clearly related, we might just group them under a single team, would that make sense? if so what groups would we need?
> 
> @Caleb wdyt?
> 
> Thijs
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Thijs S. <th...@th...>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2023, at 07:48, Peter Billam wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Two things:
> 
> If I want to change the rockspec, but not change the tar.gz at all and
> not change the version number, there's a way to do that, isn't there ?
> Do I make that rockspec change and upload it all to to luarocks.org ?
> Do I upload the rockspec only, or the whole tar.gz as normal ?
> 
> I'm 75 and not expecting to last very long.
> I would love other lua-people to take over ownership of my modules ...
>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
> .. and their man pages, seeing that pjb.com.au will vanish
> when I stop paying my bills ...
> Volunteers ?
> 
> Peter
> 
> https://pjb.com.au      https://peterbillam.gitlab.io/pjb_lua/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
> 

As Tomas mentioned, we might port them to LunarModules, set up a team there so anyone interested can simply join the team. Though the modules seem to have varying uses, looking at their download stats.

Also, from the looks of it many modules seem related? Normally we set up 1 team per repo. But if modules are clearly related, we might just group them under a single team, would that make sense? if so what groups would we need?

@Caleb wdyt?

Thijs

Re: [Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Tomás G. <to...@te...>]

Hi Peter

> If I want to change the rockspec, but not change the tar.gz at all and
> not change the version number, there's a way to do that, isn't there ?
> Do I make that rockspec change and upload it all to to luarocks.org ?
> Do I upload the rockspec only, or the whole tar.gz as normal ?

I think you should use the number after the minus sign.  Take a look
at LuaSQL-MySQL driver.  The last version is 2.6.0, but there are two
deploy rockspecs: 2.6.0-1 and 2.6.0-2.  The difference between them
follows:

$ diff download/luasql-mysql-2.6.0-*
2c2
< version = "2.6.0-1"
---
> version = "2.6.0-2"
4c4
<   url = "git://github.com/keplerproject/luasql.git",
---
>   url = "git+https://github.com/keplerproject/luasql.git",

> I'm 75 and not expecting to last very long.
> I would love other lua-people to take over ownership of my modules ...
>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
> .. and their man pages, seeing that pjb.com.au will vanish
> when I stop paying my bills ...
> Volunteers ?

Some packages were moved to lunarmodules "umbrella" to distribute
maintenance.  Maybe your packages could benefit of it also.
@Hisham?!?

Regards,
Tomás

[Luarocks-developers] two questions ...

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Hi

Two things:

If I want to change the rockspec, but not change the tar.gz at all and
not change the version number, there's a way to do that, isn't there ?
Do I make that rockspec change and upload it all to to luarocks.org ?
Do I upload the rockspec only, or the whole tar.gz as normal ?

I'm 75 and not expecting to last very long.
I would love other lua-people to take over ownership of my modules ...
  http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam
.. and their man pages, seeing that pjb.com.au will vanish
when I stop paying my bills ...
Volunteers ?

Peter

https://pjb.com.au      https://peterbillam.gitlab.io/pjb_lua/

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

This is scary :
 
  > print("10" > "9")
  false

So perhaps better go from version 9 straight to version 91 ...

Peter

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Eric C. <ech...@gm...>]

I'm sorry. I didn't realise you're the package maintainer.

Nevermind what I just said.
---
Eric


Em ter., 17 de out. de 2023 às 00:10, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...>
escreveu:

> Hi
>
> > Your best bet would be to try to build it from source code
>
> But then how can my luarock
>   http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam/lgdbm
> be maintained ?
>
> I'll try again, but I did try once
> > or also by download the tar file and installing by hand,
> and that failed with the same message ...
>
> Peter
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
>

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Sean C. <se...@co...>]

It was thus said that the Great Peter Billam once stated:
> Yes :-) downloading the lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock into /tmp and
>   luarocks install /tmp/lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock
> installs it just fine :-)  (thanks Sean!)
> 
> One thing that occurred to me is that the rockspec specifies
>   dependencies = {
>     "lua >=5.2, <5.5"  -- 20211118 to allow lua5.4
>   }
> but devuan daedalus comes with Lua 5.3.6
> and I'm wondering how 5.3.6 survives that "lua >=5.2, <5.5" criterion
> seeing that >= implies a numerical comparison,
> but 5.3.6 is not a valid number ...

  Another example of version numbers---version 2.10 is later than version
2.1, yet as "numbers", they are the same.

  -spc

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Sean C. <se...@co...>]

It was thus said that the Great Peter Billam once stated:
> Yes :-) downloading the lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock into /tmp and
>   luarocks install /tmp/lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock
> installs it just fine :-)  (thanks Sean!)

  You're welcome.

> One thing that occurred to me is that the rockspec specifies
>   dependencies = {
>     "lua >=5.2, <5.5"  -- 20211118 to allow lua5.4
>   }
> but devuan daedalus comes with Lua 5.3.6
> and I'm wondering how 5.3.6 survives that "lua >=5.2, <5.5" criterion
> seeing that >= implies a numerical comparison,
> but 5.3.6 is not a valid number ...
> 
> Do I have a good way to rewriting the "lua >=5.2, <5.5" test that will
> handle these NaN llua versions like 5.3.6 ?

  It's testing versions, not numbers, so 5.3.6 is a valid version number. 
You might want to read <https://semver.org/>.  While Lua doesn't following
semantic versioning per that site, it does cover how a lot of software
"compares" version numbers.

  -spc

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Yes :-) downloading the lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock into /tmp and
  luarocks install /tmp/lgdbm-20211118.52-0.src.rock
installs it just fine :-)  (thanks Sean!)

One thing that occurred to me is that the rockspec specifies
  dependencies = {
    "lua >=5.2, <5.5"  -- 20211118 to allow lua5.4
  }
but devuan daedalus comes with Lua 5.3.6
and I'm wondering how 5.3.6 survives that "lua >=5.2, <5.5" criterion
seeing that >= implies a numerical comparison,
but 5.3.6 is not a valid number ...

Do I have a good way to rewriting the "lua >=5.2, <5.5" test that will
handle these NaN llua versions like 5.3.6 ?

Peter

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Sean C. <se...@co...>]

It was thus said that the Great Peter Billam once stated:
> Greetings again
> 
> I'm trying but failing to get lgdbm installed (on devuan daedalus) by
>   apt install lgdbm
> or also by download the tar file and installing by hand,
> but in both cases I get:
> 
>   lgdbm 20130702-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.3-1 provided by VM)
>   gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lua5.3 -c lgdbm.c -o lgdbm.o -I/usr/include
>   lgdbm.c: In function ‘luaopen_gdbm’:
>   lgdbm.c:263:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'luaL_register';
>     did you mean 'lua_register'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   263 |  luaL_register(L,MYNAME,R);
>       |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |  lua_register

  Interesting.  A search of lgdbm shows that 20130702-1 is the previous
version; the latest is 20211118.52 (it is, in fact, the next version from
the one you have).  20211118.52 installed just fine (both Lua 5.1 and 5.4),
but when I tried installing 20130702-1 using 5.4, it failed with the same
warning.  That tells me that 20130702-1 expects Lua 5.1, so you might need
to get the latest version and try that one.

  -spc

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Hi 

> Your best bet would be to try to build it from source code

But then how can my luarock
  http://luarocks.org/modules/peterbillam/lgdbm
be maintained ?

I'll try again, but I did try once
> or also by download the tar file and installing by hand,
and that failed with the same message ...

Peter

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Eric C. <ech...@gm...>]

Your best bet would be to try to build it from source code and avoid LR
dependency management.
Repo: https://github.com/LuaDist/lgdbm
---
Eric


Em seg., 16 de out. de 2023 às 18:04, Peter Billam <pet...@fa...>
escreveu:

> Apologies:  I wrote
> > apt install lgdbm
> but I meant
>   luarocks install lgdbm
>
> Peter
> _______________________________________________
> Luarocks-developers mailing list
> Lua...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
>

Re: [Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Apologies:  I wrote
> apt install lgdbm
but I meant
  luarocks install lgdbm

Peter

[Luarocks-developers] luaL_register ?

[Peter B. <pet...@fa...>]

Greetings again

I'm trying but failing to get lgdbm installed (on devuan daedalus) by
  apt install lgdbm
or also by download the tar file and installing by hand,
but in both cases I get:

  lgdbm 20130702-1 depends on lua >= 5.1 (5.3-1 provided by VM)
  gcc -O2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lua5.3 -c lgdbm.c -o lgdbm.o -I/usr/include
  lgdbm.c: In function ‘luaopen_gdbm’:
  lgdbm.c:263:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'luaL_register';
    did you mean 'lua_register'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  263 |  luaL_register(L,MYNAME,R);
      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |  lua_register

It might have been just a matter of replacing luaL_register with lua_register
but the worrd luaL_register does not occur in the code
  260  luaL_newmetatable(L,MYTYPE);
  261  luaL_setfuncs(L,R,0);
  262  lua_pushliteral(L,"version");          /** version */
  263  lua_pushliteral(L,MYVERSION);
  264  lua_pushstring(L,gdbm_version);
  265  lua_concat(L,2);
  266  lua_settable(L,-3);

Something very similar has happened before :
  https://sourceforge.net/p/luarocks/mailman/message/33877260/

I'm 75 now, and I've spent all day getting nowhere with this :-(
So what I really need is for someone younger than me to adopt lgdbm

lgdbm is required by CommandLineUI.lua and that's required by
many of the things I need.
I worked fine on previous versions of devuan.

Can someone at least please tell me how to modify the above code ?
Or (very preferably) could someone please adopt lgdbm ?

Peter

https://pjb.com.au   pet...@fa...   (03) 6278 9410

A comfortable life and a creative life are mutually exclusive.
  -- Robert Fripp