Re: lua51 instead of lua? (fink, debian, gentoo et.al)

[Antonio Scuri <scuri@...>]

At 10:30 22/4/2005, Asko Kauppi wrote:

> Currently, all Lua package distributions I know simply create 'lua' (and 
> 'luac') binaries, possibly libraries, too.
>
> What happens if you end up needing two separate versions?  Choose 
> either.  But this could easily be fixed by using 'lua51', 'luac51' etc. 
> command names instead of the common one.  Then, there wouldn't be any 
> clash and users could pick & use Lua as they please.
>
> The situation would be especially nice for people adding the _application_ 
> (and not Lua itself) to their system. They perhaps don't even know what 
> Lua is, let alone can decide upon version conflicts.
>
> What do you think?
> -ak


  LuaBinaries already use this convention.

scuri