JakobOvrum/LuaD

Why not dub packaging?

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p0nce commented

Expected improvements:

  • users discovering LuaD
  • drop maintaining VisualD packages.
  • As https://github.com/Kelet/DerelictLua supports 5.2, it will be possible to use the "configurations" field to use either dynamic or static binding
  • dub is great all around
JakobOvrum commented

I was simply waiting for dub to mature. At this point, making a dub package makes a lot of sense.

drop maintaining VisualD packages.

Are the generated VisualD project files as good as the manually maintained ones? The current solution file and project file are both very simple so I'm guessing the answer is yes.

As https://github.com/Kelet/DerelictLua supports 5.2, it will be possible to use the "configurations" field to use either dynamic or static binding

The whole Lua version thing is not so simple, but yeah, switching between bindings shouldn't be hard. I guess the easiest way would be to make luad.c.all contain a version statement that switched between the two and then import luad.c.all in all the higher-level modules. In theory, this hurts compilation times for separate compilation, but is probably not an issue in practice.

p0nce commented

Are the generated VisualD project files as good as the manually maintained ones?

You often have to turn on warnings, and choose "Mago" debugger, and that's about it.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to dub configurations, I believe gl3n and glamour use it for optional dependencies.

patrickjm commented

Is there plan to have this implemented soon?

JakobOvrum commented

Added a dub.json just now: 04bb9ff

I can also confirm that dub test works correctly with this.

I don't want to close this issue just yet though - how can I best handle the examples?

edit:

Seems to have updated on the repository now: http://code.dlang.org/packages/luad

p0nce commented

What I do is having a single dub.json for each example.

extrawurst commented

Yeah even vibe.d does it this way (Sonke must know it, he develops dub too
^^)

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What I do is having a single dub.json for each example.

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JakobOvrum commented

Added dub.json files to all the examples. The hello example doesn't link due to bug #12144, but the other examples work!

Support for Lua 5.2 should be handled in #19, and I'll open a new issue about the auto-generated VisualD files.