[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/minetest: don't depend on luajit

[Yann E. MORIN]

James, All,

On 2020-07-28 13:48 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:17:26 -0600
> James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:09 AM Thomas Petazzoni
> > <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:56:21 -0600
> > > James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Since minetest has a fallback to a bundled lua when luajit is not
> > > > available we don't need to depend on luajit or any lua version at all.  
> > > In general, I think we try to not use bundled libraries even when they
> > > exist. If minetest needs a Lua interpreter, it should always use an
> > > external Lua interpreter, I believe.  
> > From my understanding luajit is the only supported external lua
> > interpreter for minetest. So I think it makes sense to not require
> > a specific lua interpreter for flexibility.
> I don't understand your reply, as I was not talking about using other
> Lua interpreters.
> What I'm saying is that if minetest has a mandatory dependency on
> LuaJIT, then it should *always* use the external LuaJIT and never use
> the bundled one. We prefer external libraries over bundled libraries in
> general in the context of Buildroot.

James, I think both Thomas and I understand your point of view. However,
I do agree with Thomas on that topic, that we do use external libraries
over bundled ones, even if that restricts the possibilities.

Besides, minetest is a game; it is not a critical component for which we
could consider bending the rules. Restricting minetest to use the
external luajit will not be a major hindrance for the overwhelming
majority of bBuildroot users, if at all (sorry Romain! ;-] ).

So I've marked this patch as rejected in patchwork.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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