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FS#983 - Lua 5.2 support
User who did this - Rob Hoelz (hoelzro)

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I think that Lua 5.2 is intended more as a version for new applications, rather 
than an upgrade path for existing ones.  Converting the application to Lua 5.2 
would require a good deal of work and little benefit; in fact, since 5.2 is 
still so young, very few modules have been ported to make use of it.  Because 
of this, porting Awesome to Lua 5.2 would break nearly any rc.lua that uses 
external modules.  Also, many Linux distributions are staying on Lua 5.1 for 
now; if you upgrade to 5.2, you either alienate users of distributions that 
don't ship 5.2, bring the burden of maintaining a Lua 5.2 package for these 
distributions on the Awesome community (assuming a third party 5.2 package 
doesn't already exist for those distributions), or require Awesome to include 
the Lua sources in its own source tree.
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