Re: Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2014-03-28 16:02 GMT+01:00 Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>:

> +1
> The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.
>
> Cheers,
> Balint
>
> 2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro <nakayamakenjiro () gmail com>:
> > +1
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <
> hadriel.kaplan () oracle com>
> > wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > > Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
> > > 5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.
> > >
> > > There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
> > > continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have
> to
> > > continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix,
> etc.
> > > There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.
>  There
> > > was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since
> 2011.
> > > -hadriel

Is 5.2.3 a must have? Right now we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows (I'm
trying to build with it as we speak) but not a 5.2.3 one.

Pascal.

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