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On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: |
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> Dear everyone, |
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> As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward |
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> owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never |
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> officially declared end of life on older versions, and on the other |
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> dev-lang/luajit has never moved beyond 5.1 with their API support. |
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> Still, this doesn't mean WE have to support all branches in |
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> perpetuity... Between 5.1 being effectively here to stay due to LuaJIT |
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> and 5.4 still being relatively new (meaning it cannot feasibly replace |
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> 5.3 at this point), I would like to start by getting rid of 5.2 first. |
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Actually upstream does say when they will stop supporting each version |
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[1]. |
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5.1 can go because luajit would cover it, but 5.2 is also a candidate. |
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William |
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[1] http://www.lua.org/versions.html |
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