Re: Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

[Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com>]

BTW, to answer your question directly, no I don't think it's a big deal if you only run 5.2.1.  The bugs fixed in 5.2.2 
were pretty esoteric, and even more so those fixed in 5.2.3.

FWIW, I use Lua 5.2.1 on my Mac all the time (because MacPorts hasn't updated their Lua installer to 5.2.3 yet, and I 
use MacPorts).

-hadriel


On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com> wrote:

> The bugs are listed here:
> http://www.lua.org/bugs.html
>
> 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since 2012.
>
> What do you mean by "we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3 one"? Do you mean from some pre-built binary 
> repository somewhere?
>
> -hadriel
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > 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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