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- Subject: Re: What counts as a fork?
- From: Jay Carlson <nop@...>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:44:33 -0500
On 2017-11-28 Tue, at 15:20, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:
> I consider an implementation of Lua a 'fork' if it doesn't pass the
> Lua test suite. Otherwise it is another implementation of Lua, derived
> or independent.
>
> By this standard both Ravi and LuaJIT are forks.
The test suite is the definition of the language, then. What happens when somebody forks the test suite? 1/2 :-)
Is Lua 5.2 a fork of Lua 5.1?
--
Jay
- References:
- [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Soni "They/Them" L.
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Sean Conner
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Soni "They/Them" L.
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Paige DePol
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Soni "They/Them" L.
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Paige DePol
- Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- What counts as a fork?, Paige DePol
- Re: What counts as a fork?, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
- Re: What counts as a fork?, Paige DePol
- Re: What counts as a fork?, Andrew Starks
- Re: What counts as a fork?, Dibyendu Majumdar
