Re: Lua 5.1 (final,rc) now available

[askok@...]

Adding to John's..

Some package systems use (or: at least optionally allow) MD5 sums to make sure no-one's been 
tampering the tgz. But only some (fink does, dpkg not sure, ipkg does not?).

-asko


Lainaus John Belmonte <john@neggie.net>:

> Erik Hougaard wrote:
> > Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > 
> >> The tarball at http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.1-rc.tar.gz has been
> >> replaced by one containing the fixes suggested so far. Since there
> have
> >> been a few of those, we shall wait a little longer before freezing
> Lua
> >> 5.1.
> >>
> >> Please take a look and send us your comments or post them here.
> >>
> >> Enjoy.
> >> --lhf
> >>   
> > 
> > 
> > So should it be named RC2 to  avoid confusions ?
> > 
> > /Erik
> 
> I second that.  Please don't modify your released tarballs-- work,
> beta,
> release candidate, or otherwise.  Any might get packaged downstream.
> Consider that package development involves taking a known upstream
> source, possibly applying patches, and building.  Really this should be
> reproducible all the way from the download URL.
> 
> --John
>