Re: [Plplot-devel] Building fails with Lua version > 5.1

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2012-02-11 14:57-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Lua-5.2 was released only in December so it will take a while for that
> to propagate to most Linux distros.  For example, Debian is quite
> conservative and only supports Lua-5.0 even in the unstable version
> of Debian for some reason.

The first sentence is right which still implies it will be a while
before very many PLplot users can help with 5.2 testing, but I would
like to correct the Debian misinformation in the rest of that
paragraph.

Basically, I was confused by a change in lua package naming schemes so
I missed the more modern lua packages for Debian in that comment.

To correct that comment, the lua50 and lua5.1 (note the changed naming
convention) Debian packages are in Debian stable, testing, and
unstable. The lua5.2 Debian package is only in Debian experimental
now, and I expect it will be after the next release of Debian before
it becomes part of Debian unstable and eventually gets propagated from
there (if it passes all tests) to Debian testing.

I do plan to upgrade from Debian stable to testing in late March, but
even then I don't expect to have access to a packaged version of lua
5.2 from the above results on the packaging of lua for Debian. 
Therefore, I hope the three lines of changes I have suggested to Atri
for our build system so that it can find lua 5.2 will allow him to
test whether PLplot actually builds and runs OK with the 5.2 version
of lua.

Alan
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