Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work2) now available

[Mike Nelson <mikestar1313@...>]

This compiles fine on Windows 8.1 under minGW 4.8.1. Worked with a few 
tiny modifications to my custom makefile for Lua 5.2.3; the makefile 
distributed with 5.3.0 (work2) should work fine for standard build setups.

I give it  +1 (at least) for the new features! And none of my 5.2 stuff 
has broken so far when recompiled for 5.3: not even my 5.2 bindings for 
C/Invoke, which are still being tested.

I think now would be a good time to deprecate automatic conversion of 
strings to numbers:  we aren't even at 5.3.0 alpha yet, so plenty of 
time to try it out.

A feature I would love to see is a good FFI built in to Lua 5.3--a real 
boon to us who use Lua mainly as an extendible language.

Thanks again for the great work,

Mike