Re: Lua version census - the results!
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- Subject: Re: Lua version census - the results!
- From: nobody <nobody+lua-list@...>
- Date: 2020年1月30日 20:26:21 +0100
On 29/01/2020 02.35, Coda Highland wrote:
Another point of consideration is that 5.1 was the main Lua release
for almost six years. 5.2 lasted less than three and never generated
any noteworthy hype while bringing a controversial compatibility
break along with it, effectively giving 5.1 additional time in the
spotlight. The fact that LuaJIT was drop-in compatible with 5.1
meant that targeting 5.1 was an even better idea.
Another part of that problem is that for a far too long, the only Lua
you could get on Debian/Ubuntu was Lua 5.1… Back then they didn't have
them slotted[1] and so everything was built against 5.1 and all you
could get was 5.1… which means that's what you defaulted to when
starting a new project, or else it "wouldn't run" on Debian/Ubuntu.
-- nobody
[1] (I don't know what the Debian term for that is… being able to have
different versions of a package installed at the same time.)