Re: Lua 5.2 Binary Compatibility
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- Subject: Re: Lua 5.2 Binary Compatibility
- From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 13:38:26 +0300
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:00, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> This was a scary way to start Saturday with Lua 5.2:
>> require 'lfs'
> error loading module 'lfs' from file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lfs.so':
> /usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/lfs.so: undefined symbol: luaL_openlib
> Was it a deliberate decision to break the 5.1 ABI? If so, I can see a
> world of pain opening up, particularly on Windows.
ABI breakages are unavoidable, and 5.1->5.2 transition have all rights
to do them.
That being said, the issue looks nasty.
I believe that the desired behavior for require is to detect Lua
version mismatch and skip the module to try to find a next one that
fits better. I'm not sure if it is doable though...
Alexander.