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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:02:20 +0100
+1
The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.

Cheers,
Balint

2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro <nakayamakenjiro@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <hadriel.kaplan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>> Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
>> 5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.
>>
>> There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
>> continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to
>> continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, etc.
>> There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There
>> was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.
>>
>> -hadriel
>>
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