Re: Lua download & bugs page suggestion

[Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@...>]

Sorry for apparently sending this twice, my e-mail program was acting up
and I thought it didn't get sent.

On 10/11/2013 06:24 PM, Jonas Thiem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I wanted to update my project to Lua 5.2.2, and I noticed two
> things that I thought were worth considering a change:
> 
> * first, it wasn't obvious to me at first whether the official tarball
> download is patched up with all the available patches (turns out it
> isn't). I fear some people will assume it is and not browse the site
> enough to get around the bugs page, and then in addition realize they
> will need to apply all the patches manually. That would be sad, because
> they would go away and work with an unpatched Lua (without being
> necessarily aware of it)
> 
> * in addition, when I attempted to patch my Lua, I noticed all the
> patches are in an easy to read, but not so suitable for patch download
> embedded-in-webpage form where I need to copy+paste them one by one, 7
> in total (or is there any other way to fetch them?). A culminated raw
> patch file linked at the top which simply has all the newest patches in
> one big patch file would help a lot!
> 
> Or what are other people's thoughts on this?
> 
> Regards
> Jonas Thiem
> 
>

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