On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 02:19:01PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-12-03, James Turner <ja...@calminferno.net> wrote: > > Attached is a diff to bring Lua 5.14 up to patch 4. > > Committed, thanks. >
Great, thanks. > > Also, Lua 5.2 is at rc4 and should see a release in the up coming weeks. > > I was wondering if anyone was working on port for it? I figured I'll try > > to handle it the same way Python and PHP are being handled, ie have both > > 5.1.4 and 5.2 in tree. Thanks. > > Is this necessary / is there an advantage to doing this? > > Python was originally done because some packages depending on python > only worked with the old version (and is continued because there are > major differences with 3.x), does something like this apply to Lua as > well? > > If not then it is (quite a lot of) unnecessary pain to maintain two > versions in-tree. > Lua 5.2 does have a number of changes that could break software written for 5.1.4. A list of incompatibilities can be found here [0]. I'm not sure if it will be defined by default with 5.2 release but rc4 does have LUA_COMPAT_ALL defined by default. With this define, it may be ok to just update the port rather then create the separate versions. I'll look into this more and build/test the various lua ports included in tree before I put to much work into reworking the port. [0] http://www.lua.org/work/doc/manual.html#8 -- James Turner ja...@calminferno.net
