RE: Is LuaBinaries still being maintained?

["Antonio Scuri" <scuri@...>]

  Hi,

  Just released LuaBinaries for Lua 5.2.3.

Best,
Scuri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Baker
> Sent: domingo, 30 de março de 2014 08:36
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Is LuaBinaries still being maintained?
> 
> I notice that the documentation for Lua 5.3 (work2)
> [http://www.lua.org/work/doc/] still directs readers to LuaBinaries to
> obtain an executable version of the language. Unfortunately it seems
> that LuaBinaries has not been updated in almost 2 years. The latest
> binaries available are for 5.2.1. By now, it would be good to have
> binaries of 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 available and, ideally, binaries for the
> work versions of 5.3 as well (at least for the major platforms).
> 
> Is LuaBinaries likely to be updated with these files in the future?
> 
> I think Lua benefits significantly from having (semi-) official
> binaries, and until mid-2012 I believe LuaBinaries did a good job of
> providing these. I particularly liked the minimalist approach and the
> ease of installation: simply extract the downloaded archive.