On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Silverstone <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 03:30:32AM +0200, Arvydas Sidorenko wrote: >> I ported Awesome to Lua v5.2. > > Pretty cool. > > Note that a lot of the Lua community is sticking with v5.1 for now. It's > generally considered that 5.2 doesn't bring very much of interest to many, and > remaining at 5.1 allows for the use of LuaJIT. (Mike Pall has stated he's not > moving to full 5.2 compatibility on that). > > Any work you do to make AwesomeWM 5.2 compatible, while cool, should > definitely > be well tested with Lua 5.1 too. I personally think it's way more important > to > allow for LuaJIT than to allow for the minor new functionality 5.2 provides. > > If you're already heading down the compatibility line then that's excellent > news (I'll admit I've not read the code changes yet) but if you hadn't thought > of that, or if you want some help to be sure it remains compatible with both, > then please let me know and I'll see if I can organise some time to help > rather > than kvetch from the sidelines. > > Thanks, > > D. > > -- > Daniel Silverstone http://www.digital-scurf.org/ > PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69 > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
Keeping Lua 5.1 compatibility is absolutely crucial since making Awesome v5.2-only would be pointless and harmful. Every single push was tested to make sure nothing got broken. I am running Awesome from my git and lua 5.1 since the beginning and not seeing anything wrong. The lua code is different though - the WM is a little broken. But it was expected and I'll fix it. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
