Re: Lua 5.1.1-rc2 now available
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- Subject: Re: Lua 5.1.1-rc2 now available
- From: "E. Wing" <ewmailing@...>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:32:49 -0700
More seriously, is the release number (5.1.1) accessible from Lua programs?
No and that's the whole point. A Lua program does not need to know about
minor releases, does it?
--lhf
It does if you need to work around bugs. In theory, the API version
number (5.1) should be sufficient, but having the patch number can be
extremely useful if a program has to work around a bug/different
behavior in a specific patch release, but still should work with all
versions under that API version umbrella.
Perhaps in the future, creating an API (for both C and Lua) that lets
you access the major, minor, and patch version numbers separately
might be much more convenient for everybody.
Thanks,
Eric