Re: [ANN] lglicua-0.1-alpha4 released

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary@...>]

Hi,

Congratulations on the new release. This looks great! But where can I get it?

Cheers,
Gary

> On Aug 14, 2021, at 4:17 AM, sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@grouse.com.au> wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce another alpha release of lglicua,
> my project to ease the effort needed to bring the Tecgraf
> IM/CD/IUP scientific/technical tools to a range of
> GNU/Linux distributions.
> 
> This release supports Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 on Ubuntu
> and GNU/Linux Mint distributions, and adds support for
> CentOS-8 + Lua 5.3, to the existing CentOS7 + Lua 5.1
> support.
> 
> The installer steps have been reworked, with a new, big
> and somewhat brutal command replacing several steps (for
> suitable versions of "x"):
> 
>        lua-environment-force 5.x fer-real
> 
> added to co-ordinate all the changes required to permit
> a changeable Lua ecosystem/environment:
> 
>    - installation Lua version selection;
>    - LuaRocks Lua version configuration;
>    - Assistant database Lua version fields; and
>    - Multiple workspace play/run support changes,
>      including LD_LIBRARY_PATH and package.cpath.
> 
> As always, the project uses the Subversion repository of
> the Tecgraf IM/CD/IUP tools, as these are generally
> more up-to-date than the formal release packages.
> 
> One distribution tested was Ubuntu 21.04.  This distro has
> GCC-10.3, and some warning diagnostics have been added or
> have been reformatted since GCC-9.3.  The
> 'parse-build.lua' script has been updated to recognise
> the new messages.
> 
> PosixExec has gained functionality, as it became apparent
> that caller code patterns could be simplified if these
> patterns were accessed via terse options.  For example,
> the child process can change to a different working
> directory, and/or can have environment directives such as
> "LC_ALL=C" prefixed to a command.
> 
> cheers,
> sur-behoffski (Brenton Hoff)
> programmer, Grouse Software
> 
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