Giorgos Keramidas | 17 Jun 2012 12:31
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New lgi dependency and older Ubuntu LTS

Hi everyone,


I like tracking the git branch of awesome, but it has recently failed to compile for me after the switch to lgi:

commit ca2fc7811ad769cc88ead583e099230f33f6c8a2
Author: Uli Schlachter <psychon <at> znc.in>
Date:   Tue Jun 5 16:22:04 2012 +0200

    gears.surface: Add a version check for lgi
    
    The cairo bindings are quite new in lgi and thus we depend on a quite new
    version of lgi. Older versions will fail with lots of weird errors, e.g.:
    
    lib/gears/color.lua:61:attempt to call field 'create_rgba' (a nil value)
    
    Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon <at> znc.in>

Some of the dependencies of the lgi code cannot be met at all on my aging Ubuntu installation.

I can't install the latest and greatest packages available on this system.
Does this mean I cannot run awesome-master anymore?



Gmane