Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Kunal Mehta
Hello, On 7/25/19 10:27 AM, Kyle Edwards wrote: > 2. Pick a single version of Lua and stick with it forever, missing out > on the benefits of newer versions but retaining backwards compatibility This is the strategy that we've taken for php-luasandbox (uses lua 5.1), used by MediaWiki. The advice

Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Kyle Edwards
On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 09:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Tobias Frost writes: > > > > > I think there is another option, as embedding lua is a bad idea for > > the > > reason you have already quoted: There are currently two (three with > > experimental) lua versions available in Debian, so you s

Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Tobias Frost writes: > I think there is another option, as embedding lua is a bad idea for the > reason you have already quoted: There are currently two (three with > experimental) lua versions available in Debian, so you should run one of > those. This is especially true if the to-embedded-libra

Re: Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Kyle, On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:27:42AM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > Hi all, > > As per Debian policy, programs and libraries are generally not allowed > to embed their own copies of libraries that are present in another > package, in order to avoid duplication of code and to enable security

Question about embedded Lua

2019-07-25 Thread Kyle Edwards
Hi all, As per Debian policy, programs and libraries are generally not allowed to embed their own copies of libraries that are present in another package, in order to avoid duplication of code and to enable security updates by updating shared libraries. In general, this is a good rule, but I'm won