On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:27:13AM +0200, Arvydas Sidorenko wrote:
> Keeping Lua 5.1 compatibility is absolutely crucial since making
> Awesome v5.2-only would be pointless and harmful. Every single push

I'm extremely pleased to hear you say that -- you'd be amazed at how many
people don't consider this kind of compatibility when doing this kind of thing.

> 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.

There are a few tricks to making Lua code work well for both 5.1 and 5.2 -- not
least is eliminating the use of 'module()' :-)

D.

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