[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/6] lua: add 5.3.x serie

[François Perrad]

2015-01-16 22:25 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Francois Perrad,
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:09:50 +0100, Francois Perrad wrote:
>
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_3),y)
>> +LUA_VERSION = 5.3.0
>> +else
>>  ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LUA_5_2),y)
>>  LUA_VERSION = 5.2.3
>>  else
>>  LUA_VERSION = 5.1.5
>>  endif
>
> Can we get rid of Lua 5.1 ? If not, at what point do you think it will
> be possible ?
>

My feeling is :
- Lua 5.1 will stay
- if everything goes well for Lua 5.3 (ie. modules/extensions
updated), Lua 5.2 could be marked as deprecated in 6 months and
removed in 1 year.

The gap for compatibility between 5.2 and 5.3 is really small.
Lua 5.3 comes with a real improvement for embedded target : a 32 bits
variant for number (see patch 3/6).

François

> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
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