Re: Lua 5.0 and 5.1 together

["D Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

> I was wondering if we have a robust solution for having two version of

I thought we had it.
The default LUA_PATH and :LUA_CPATH have 5.1 in the path name
for *nix, Windows uses the module directory. It seems to work
ok for me.

DB
On 4/4/06, Diego Nehab <diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if we have a robust solution for having two version of
> Lua installed at the same time. Surely, we can have different
> directories for all the extension libraries, and different names for the
> interpreters. But right now there is a colision in the name of the
> environment variables LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH.
>
> Sure, we can fix Compat-5.1 to use LUA_PATH50 and LUA_CPATH50, or
> something similar. But when Lua 5.2 is released, it would be nice if a
> standard was in place. During transitions and especially for developers
> of libraries, it would be great to have both versions working at the
> same time.
>
> Regards,
> Diego.
>