RE: Packaging Lua libraries

["Virgil Smith" <Virgil@...>]

You could of course check www.lua.org yourself, but IIRC Lua's version
numbering is X.Y.Z where...

X -> Major Version
Y -> Minor Version
Z -> Bugfix Version

and

1. The interface can change between Major Versions.
2. The interface can be extended between Minor Versions.
3. The interface does not change at all between bugfix versions.




-----Original Message-----
From: lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br
[mailto:lua-bounces@bazar2.conectiva.com.br]On Behalf Of Andre Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:37 PM
To: Lua list
Subject: Re: Packaging Lua libraries


On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:08, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> Probably supposed to say $PREFIX/lib/lua5 here?

Yeah, I sent an email correcting it, but I wasn't fast enough :)

> Also, maybe it should
> be lua50, lua-5.0 or whatever instead as (?) Lua 5.1 is incompatible?

Can anyone confirm that? Will 5.1 really be incompatible? If so,
I believe that having /usr/lib/lua/{5.0,5.1} would be nicer, to avoid
too many directories under /usr/lib.

> There are two kinds of version numbers for libraries, the "package
version"
> and "API version". For example, the main Lua library under Debian is

I believe the "API version" is a Debian-specific thing. At least on
Mandrake, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, and IIRC Gentoo, what I have is
"liblua.so.$version.0", with a "liblua.so" symlink.


Andre

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