[syslinux] lua assist

[H. Peter Anvin]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20090205 om 00:48 schreef Geert Stappers:
>> Hello,
>>
>> For Lua inclusion in Syslinux an idea to ship with an com32/lua/assist
>> directory and an com32/lua/patches directory.
>>
>> In the patches directory patches against a pristine lua tarball
>> and the assist dir contains scripts for further tayloring.
>>
>> | $ git clone http://www.stappers.it/tracking/syslinux/.git syslinux-lua-stappers
> 
>      <snip/>
> 
>> It is work from august and misses recent work on the Lua patches.
> 
> Now updated & tagged as 'Easter'

I really don't like this idea.  Patches-in-scm is really hard to manage.

A much better idea is to keep a separate branch with pristine Lua 
sources, and when Lua is to be upgraded, one updates the pristine source 
branch and then merge it.

	-hpa