Re: Getting Started with Lua

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:

The page contains a reference to Lua for Windows. Is this distribution
still being maintained? It gives the impression of being at least two years
out of date. Lua is 5.1.4, LPeg is 0.9, etc.

Since I'm part of the gang I feel vaguely guility about this.  To get a more modern (and much more maintained) Windows distribution go to http://luadist.org/ and grab

https://github.com/LuaDist/Binaries/archive/LuaDist-batteries-0.9.8-Windows-x86.zip

(there's also batteries there for 64-bit OS X and Linux)

The idea is that this is the basis for the new Lua for Windows standard.

(OK, still Lua 5.1.5.  That's because the porting process to 5.2 is still lagging, not that Peter Drahos thinks it's unimportant)

steve d.