Re: ??????: Re: a deeply-hidden bug when parsing file with gc enabled (baselib loadfile)

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 03:20, Francesco Abbate <francesco.bbt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> i should check the patches list every day in the future, haha
>>
>> Bugs are not reported every day. And patches are announced here as they
>> become available.
>
> Personally I've always wondered why the Lua patches are not included
> into the standard Lua distribution. It is quite odd to give people a
> source code with known bugs when the fixes are already available!
>
> We have also to treat the bugs in the mailing list by increasing the
> noise level of the discussions, really not a good deal! :-)
>
> --
> Francesco
>
>

That does seem odd to me too, especially when some of the bugs are
related to boolean expressions. Seems like the kind of thing that
should justify a 5.1.5 release.

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