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

[Glenn Travis <travplays@...>]

Thank you

> On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Paul K <paul@zerobrane.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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