Re: Standardizing lua names on *nix systems (and their distributions)

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 02/02/2015 11:45, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Enrico Tassi once stated:
> > This choice is what should be standardized.
> > lua5.1 or lua-5.1 or lua51 or ... A stupid separator character
> > may make your script fail to run on a system that uses a different
> > convention.
>
>    I think best overall would be:
>
> 	lua-50	(if it's still around)
> 	lua-51
> 	lua-52
> 	lua-53
>
>    That way, you won't run afoul of systems that use '.' to separate the main
> file name from the extension (cough MS-DOS cough), and the name stil fits in
> eight characters (cough MS-DOS cough).  I doubt we'll get to Lua 51.0 any
> time soon ...

Seriously? Who run Lua on a MS-Dos box these days?
The time of 8.3 is over, fortunately.

I have no problem with files like

Inkscape-0.91-1-win64.7z
Notepad++-6.7.3.bin.7z

on Windows for years, now. :-)

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