Re: Lua 5.1 has a serious issue

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> I appreciate that the docs may need tweaking as a result of this, but I
> seriously recommend it be done. Otherwise I can see many distributions
> applying such a patch as a "bugfix" which will make varying and
> effectively incompatible versions of Lua occupy our distributions.

Any packager that would apply a modification like that is being
irresponsible.  I don't think your last point should be considered when
deciding this issue.

Regards,
--John