Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) now available

["Thomas Harning Jr." <harningt@...>]

Any thoughts about adding a version specifier to the library/executable/headers?
The current setup precludes a clean inclusion in Linux without
mangling makefiles for Lua and messing with the "lua" executable's
name.

On 11/16/10, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Lua 5.2.0 (alpha) is now available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.2.0-alpha-rc1.tar.gz
>
> MD5	525bfa6daec8b0773845989c4886b668  -
> SHA1	b63703993ebaa3e361ede3fd1058c593bdc47034  -
>
> This is an alpha version. Some details may change in the final version.
>
> The main changes since Lua 5.1 are:
> - yieldable pcall and metamethods
> - new __ENV scheme
> - ephemeron tables
> - new library for bitwise operations
> - light C functions
> - emergency garbage collector
> The other changes are listed in
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes
>
> The complete diffs are available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.2.0-work5-alpha-rc1.txt
>
> This release candidate will be the alpha version if no glitches are found
> in the next 10 days or so.
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf
>
>
>


-- 
Thomas Harning Jr.