Re: Lua 5.0 and 5.1 together

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Diego Nehab 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.

Hi Diego,

I already tried suggesting this
(http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-02/msg00461.html).

We can get by without the Lua authors making a standard, just as we do
regarding versioned names of the lua and luac executables.  Really only
the people doing packaging need to agree.

--John