ISTR that when Lua scripting was added with the Mantle project, there may have been some modification of the Lua system as part of the integration. I might be wrong about that, or there might be no trace of that left, but ...? Matt On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 7:59 AM Nathan Cutler <presnypreklad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > does anyone know why we have lua5.1 as a ceph submodule [1]? > > the latest lua is available for many linux distros (centos/rhel, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, etc.), why not add it to install-deps.sh? > > Presumably for the same reason we have boost as a submodule. > > Past experience has shown that the version of foo (lua in this case) > can vary from distro to distro. Also, each distro is a "moving target" > in that the version of foo (lua in this case) can change, with > consequences that are impossible to predict, at any time. > > HTH, > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx > -- Matt Benjamin Red Hat, Inc. 315 West Huron Street, Suite 140A Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage tel. 734-821-5101 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
