Re: Installing Lua on macOS in order to update Lua.

[Paul K <paul@...>]

> I did a quick search on the ZeroBrane mailing list archives and saw several concerns regarding the removal of 5.1. and saw a reference to JIT and some more concerns.   I was just running  through it all.
> I wonder why it is not listed as such in the options?

I'm not sure what concerns you are referring to, but there is no need
to remove anything, as you can switch between the interpreters bundled
with ZeroBrane Studio to select the one you need and you can also
configure the IDE to use the (system) interpreter that may be compiled
with a different set of options. The reason that Lua 5.1 interpreter
is present is that there are still some projects that use it and the
IDE itself runs on Lua 5.1, but this doesn't restrict users in any way
to run and debug their applications with Lua 5.2+ interpreters.

Paul.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 8:05 AM, Glenn Travis <travplays@comcast.net> wrote:
> Thank you!!
> I did a quick search on the ZeroBrane mailing list archives and saw several concerns regarding the removal of 5.1. and saw a reference to JIT and some more concerns.   I was just running  through it all.
>
> I wonder why it is not listed as such in the options?
>
>> On Mar 2, 2018, at 9:45 AM, Paul K <paul@zerobrane.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I also noticed that along with lua 5.2 & and 5.3 it includes one simply named lua.  I wonder what that is?
>>
>> It's LuaJIT, so corresponds to Lua 5.1. If you want to use another Lua
>> interpreter, you can use path.lua setting to point to its location.
>> See this section in the documentation for details:
>> https://studio.zerobrane.com/doc-general-preferences#interpreter-path
>>
>> Paul.
>>
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