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On 14 Jan 2014 03:52, "Andrew Starks" <<a href="mailto:andrew.starks@trms.com">andrew.starks@trms.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Monday, January 13, 2014, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:<br>
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>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Andrew Starks <<a href="mailto:andrew.starks@trms.com">andrew.starks@trms.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> > I don't have LuaJit installed and would not install it (and migrate<br>
>> > everything I do over to it) just to use a library. By way of example, your<br>
>> > library may as well have been written for Python, for as much good as it<br>
>> > would be to me.<br>
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>> > By contrast, if you stick to the subset of 5.2 that 5.1 supports, and / or<br>
>> > use a bit of the luacomp library, then anyone with lua 5.1, luajit or Lua<br>
>> > 5.2 can use it.<br>
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>> > The question, from a user's perspective is: what benefit are you giving me,<br>
>> > in exchange for locking me into luajit, as a dependency?<br>
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>> > Even if I am using Luajit, that doesn't mean that I don't need to support<br>
>> > the current, mainline distribution and straight 5.1. So, I can't use your<br>
>> > library as a dependency, if this were the case.<br>
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>> > It's easier for you if you like what the FFI gives you. Supporting the<br>
>> > common subset and using luacompat, as necessary, is the simplest, for the<br>
>> > user.<br>
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>> > IMHO, of course<br>
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>> That's a fairly compelling opinion. The only thing against it is the<br>
>> temptation of using FFI in the default scripts that we ship with cgit.<br>
>> But I suppose for the sake of giving users choice later on, it might<br>
>> be best, as you've said, to continue to support both, and let the user<br>
>> choose.<br>
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> Jason,<br>
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> I also just remembered this:<br>
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> <a href="https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi">https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi</a><br>
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> Which is a luajit compatible FFI extension for Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2, but 5.2 is listed as beta. It might be worth a shot, if it lets you gain some of those conveniences and keep a broad support base.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Lua 5.2 support is fine for luaffi, but both are beta, and you have to fix the bugs yourself as it is only intermittently being developed (by me).</p>
<p dir="ltr">The most important platform that LuaJIT is not available for is probably softfloat MIPS (eg openwrt). </p>
<p dir="ltr">Justin<br>
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