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

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 12/01/2015 16:24, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> Lua 5.3.0 has been frozen and is now available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.0.tar.gz
>
> MD5	a1b0a7e92d0c85bbff7a8d27bf29f8af  -
> SHA1	1c46d1c78c44039939e820126b86a6ae12dadfba  -
>
> Lua 5.3 is now the current version of Lua.
>
> The main change in Lua 5.3 is the introduction of integers.
> Other changes are listed in
> 	http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#changes
>
> For installation and building instructions, see
> 	http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html
>
> The reference manual is available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/
>
> Minor updates to the manual will be made as needed.
>
> A test suite is available at
> 	http://www.lua.org/tests/
>
> We thank everyone for their feedback during the development of Lua 5.3.
> We look forward to working on Lua 5.4!
>
> All feedback welcome. Thanks.
> --lhf

Hooray! :-) And thanks for your efforts!

Just an aside: I moved a small project of mine to 5.3 (a Lua template 
engine and application, based on an enhanced version of Rici Lake's 
preprocessor, that I use to build more complex LaTeX documents).

It worked for 5.2 and almost did for 5.3. The only things I had to 
change were a couple of function names (table.unpack instead of bare 
unpack and load instead of loadstring - yes I used Lua 5.2 in compat 
mode for 5.1). The only major "problem" was luafilesystem module. The 
version I had didn't compile against Lua 5.3 API. I just had to download 
the latest master branch from GitHub and use that. Almost a breeze.
Total time needed: about 20 minutes. Not heavily tested but, hey!, I 
feared much more problems (since most of my "private" libraries were 
designed for 5.1 and never fully tested for 5.2).

Cheers!

-- Lorenzo

P.s.: Using Win7-64bit with 32bit executables (TDM-GCC 4.9.2 32bit).