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> Surely a packager would be working off of the actual releases not a random git archive? There are no official releases. To quote from the linked email: >
by Twirrim 3y ago
> Surely a packager would be working off of the actual releases not a random git archive?
There are no official releases. To quote from the linked email:
> No release tarballs or binaries are made available. Please do not use obsolete versions from older tarballs or zip files. Please remove any outdated links to these downloads -- they will cease to work soon.
The only way to get a release version of LuaJIT is to compile it from the git repo.
- fullstop 3y ago> The only way to get a release version of LuaJIT is to compile it from the git repo. It will be interesting to see how this is packaged in, say, Ubuntu. Will they assign their own version numbers? Dates?
- planede 3y agoI would say something along the lines of git-describe, and packages would need to depend on the exact version. If upstream can't commit to compatibility across release versions then I don't see it happening in distros either.
- layer8 3y agoSounds like eternal beta.
- andersa 3y agoIt has been an eternal, abandoned beta for many years. But sounds like work resumed now. Maybe one day it shall be stable.