On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev > <malkia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10/3/2012 10:36 AM, Elias Barrionovo wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@xxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >> It's also in Ubuntu-12.10, but I prefer the 5.2 compatibility version of >> luajit, since it has some new features (pairs metamethods, and others) that >> seems useful. > > Please do not package that as default for the general public. > > More on topic, we have our own Debian package for LuaJIT 2, I can > share that if someone is interested. > > As for a coordinated packaging effort — I do not think that Mike > should be bothered with that. If someone will need a package that > he'll want to become a maintainer for a particular packaging ecosystem > — good (or to organize the whole effort). If not — there are more > ecosystems than Mike. > > My 2c, > Alexander. > I only need LuaJIT packaged so I can package LuaAV for Fedora. But that's not going to happen in Fedora 18 as someone already noted. I don't know about the other distros, but Fedora packagers / package maintainers take great pains to coordinate with the upstream communities on things like getting the right versions and not burdening upstream developers with administrivia. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://j.mp/QCsXOr How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs?