Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "John V. Belmonte" <jbelmo...@debian.org>
* Package name : lua5.2 Version : 5.2.0 Upstream Author : Lua Team <t...@lua.org> * URL : http://www.lua.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C 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. Lua 5.2 is currently in alpha. To those who will otherwise object to "too many Lua source packages", some reminders of why we need to add this new source package while maintaining old versions: * Lua point releases (5.0, 5.1, etc.) are major releases, with backwards incompatibilities in the C API, language, and standard libraries. The last major release (5.1) was about 5 years ago. * Lua is commonly used to extend applications, and such applications, and moreover the scripts written by the application users, necessarily depend on a specific major version. Upgrading applications to new versions is not trivial. Furthermore, due to the power and virtually complete lack of bugs inherent in even old Lua versions, there is often little reason for applications to upgrade. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101125211550.9515.70494.report...@pelochan
