Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "John V. Belmonte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : lua51 Version : 5.1.0 Upstream Author : Lua Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.lua.org/ * License : MIT Description : Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. The language engine is accessible as a library, having a C API which allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions. Lua is also used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language through the simple command line interpreter provided. See <http://www.lua.org/about.html> for more information. ---- While the authors attempt to keep changes to the Lua language and standard libraries backwards compatible, the C API often changes significantly between versions (e.g. from the 5.0 series to 5.1). Applications in which Lua is embedded often become bound to a certain version of Lua indefinitely. For these reasons, and in contrast to other interpreted languages which have more of a stand-alone focus, it's important to maintain parallel source packages. The beta version of Lua 5.1 has recently been released. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
