Re: Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

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

2014-03-28 20:32 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com>:

> On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> 2014-03-28 16:34 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan () oracle com>:
>
> > 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?
> Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from
> http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).
>
>
> Huh.  I figured they were just being built from source.  At my day job we
> just build the whole thing in statically, but we had to use our own anyway
> because we made some changes to the Lua engine to protect against bad Lua
> code, and we don't allow people to swap it out as a shared library/dll.
>
>
> http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaries web page suggests to go to
> http://joedf.users.sourceforge.net/luabuilds/ for a 5.2.3 pre compiled
> binary but it does not include the header files. I guess I could get them
> from the source package.
>
>
> Yup.

Hi,

I just upgraded the Windows build system in ga1d4189 so as to use Lua
5.2.1. If required, we might change it to 5.2.3 later.

Cheers,
Pascal.

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