Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (rc3) now available

Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.4.0 (rc3) now available
From: Nick Ham &lt;contact@ ... &gt;
Date: Sat, 9 May 2020 01:04:45 +1000

I wonder if it would be possible to release Makefiles for all 5.x versions which will guess the platform using uname? This would be particularly useful for projects which allow people to choose which version of Lua to compile with, otherwise people's makefiles will need to handle pre and post 5.4 differently. Also see the Makefile for the world's fastest website generator Nift which I make (https://github.com/nifty-site-manager/nsm/blob/master/Makefile#L175), I'm pretty sure it handles using uname slightly differently, I'm not sure which way people will find easier/preferable.

Regards,

Nick.

On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:43 AM Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

Lua 5.4.0 (rc3) is now available for testing at
http://www.lua.org/work/lua-5.4.0-rc3.tar.gz

The checksums are
MD5 bf43532629d9dd182e3ba5f9193de628 -
SHA1 d877571593cb094e83f78228ec65c238327b7163 -

This is the final version of Lua 5.4.0 (rc3).

The main changes in Lua 5.4.0 are listed at
http://www.lua.org/work/doc/#changes

An updated reference manual is included and also available at
http://www.lua.org/work/doc

The complete diffs from rc2 to rc3 are available at
http://www.lua.org/work/diffs-lua-5.4.0-rc2-rc3.html
http://www.lua.org/work/diffu-lua-5.4.0-rc2-rc3.html

To build Lua in a common Unix-like platform, just do
make
The Makefile will guess your platform using uname and build Lua for it.
We welcome feedback on this, which is new, especially more uname targets
with explicit rules and fixes for existing ones.

We also welcome feedback on the listings output by luac -l -l, because
luac has been rewritten to account for the new VM instructions.

All feedback welcome. Thanks.
--lhf
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