Re: Lua 5.0 and 5.1 together

[John Belmonte <john@...>]

Roberto wrote:
>>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...
> 
> 
> We cannot change the defaults for those names from 5.1 to 5.1.1, but we
> can (and will) move its defines to luaconf.h, so there will be no need
> to patch .c files.

I would like to make both versioned and non-versioned variables
available (with the versioned having precedence), as I explained.  Each
has its uses, and I don't see a point in breaking compatibility for
existing 5.1 users.  The change you describe wouldn't obviate the need
for a patch.

--John