Re: Lua 5.0 and 5.1 together

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Diego Nehab wrote:
> Cool. I totally agree with your suggestion. I guess back then I was in
> Brazil and too busy with the beach. :)
> 
> As for not needing the support of the authors, this would force us to
> patch the lua.c and/or loadlib.c. Since the 5.1.1 has not yet been
> released...
> 
> So, what is it going to be, people?

Patching Lua to take care of distribution details is not a big deal, we
already do it for other things (e.g. patching luaconf.h to add /usr/...
variants to search paths).  Only one person need do the work and we can
then share the patch.  I'll take a stab at it this weekend.

--John