[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Add variable arrays to rpm (#1149)

[nim-nim]

It’s not a lua vs non-lua thing. I’m an heavy lua user myself. I expect that this feature would unlock more lua use, not less.

While very cool and useful, lua is ultimately limited by the stage at which lua expressions are evaluated. So, no matter how much lua you add to a spec, you need, at some point, to communicate with the non-lua part of the spec. Practically, that means rpm variables.

So, the native rpm array primitive is not needed because you can not do arrays in lua itself. It is needed to pass arrays from lua to non lua (and vice versa).

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