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Good, My binding to RapidJSON now all passed.

https://github.com/xpol/lua-rapidjson


On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:56 AM Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:
Am 08.09.2015 um 22:42 schröbte Coda Highland:
>
> The way most packaging systems handle this is to give the distinct
> versions distinct package names instead of trying to use the version
> number. For example, in Ubuntu, Python libraries that support both 2
> and 3 are shipped as "python-xxx" and "python3-xxx" (e.g.
> "python-cairo" vs. "python3-cairo").
>
> So you might have mylib_51 version 1.0.2-1, mylib_52 version 1.0.2-1,
> and mylib_53 version 1.0.2-1 -- and, if your 5.1 version isn't
> LuaJIT-compatible for whatever reason, perhaps mylib_lj version
> 1.0.2-1 or similar.

That's difficult, because LuaRocks doesn't support alternative
dependencies, so something like
     dependencies = {
       "mylib_51 >= 1.0 | mylib_52 >= 1.0 | mylib_53 >= 1.0"
     }
won't work.

On the other hand LuaRocks does support separate manifests for the
different Lua versions, so that `luarocks-5.1 install mylib` will
install the latest mylib version that's compatible with Lua 5.1.
There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of that fact. It's
unfortunate though that ULua currently does things differently.

>
> /s/ Adam
>

Philipp