Re: Fosdem talk on pain of moving from Python 2.x to 3.x

[Vadim Peretokin <vperetokin@...>]

We've been using Lua 5.1 as a tool to give our users scripting functionality for nearly 10 years now. It's working well, but as our motto is not to break backwards compatibility, it seems at this point we are eternally stuck with 5.1 as I'm not seeing much by the way of migration tools being available. There are just custom patches to future Lua versions that add backwards compatibility, but building a non-standard Lua version is another whole world of pain.

Is anyone in a similar position? How are you looking at migrating to newer Lua versions?

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 11:12 PM Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk> wrote:

I just watched this - https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/python3.

The talk goes into details of how challenging it was to move the
Python user base from 2.6 to 3.x. It seems that the process needed
active help and support from the Python team. It made me think of the
pain in the Lua community in migrating from 5.1 to 5.3. I recently
installed the new developer edition of Redhat Enterprise Server - of
course the stock Lua is 5.1 still.

Regards
Dibyendu