On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:51 PM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:04:02 +0200 Vincent Torri
> <vincent.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:11 AM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:44:19 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>> > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:58:30 +0900 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr>
>> >> said:
>> >>
>> >> i asked last night and he claims it works with 5.1 - we were using
>> >> deprecated features that still were in 5.1 (deprecated earlier) and
>> >> 5.2 killed them off entirely.
>> >>
>> >> > ARE YOU SURE OF WHAT YOU DID ? Is it still working with lua
>> >> > 5.1 ? As far as I remember we avoided moving to 5.2 because they
>> >> > did break their API/ABI. If this break 5.1, then revert !
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Enlightenment SVN
>> >> > <no-re...@enlightenment.org> wrote:
>> >> > > Log:
>> >> > > unbork edje-lua on 5.2
>> >
>> > I was worried about that, but the Lua example still runs fine on
>> > 5.1, as does my app that actually uses it.
>> >
>> > Yes, we had a bit of a discussion long ago where we decided to NOT
>> > go to 5.2.  If it helps with 5.2 and still works with 5.1, then
>> > it's all good.
>> >
>>
>> so http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ticket/978  should be closed ?
>
> I agree with Cedric's comment on that ticket.  It might be worthwhile to
> rehash the previous discussion some time in the future, things change.
>
> Personally I'd like to go with Cedric's suggestion to include Lua
> directly in EFL, but to make it LuaJIT instead of stock Lua.  To quote
> the author of LuaJIT -
>
> "As I've previously said, Lua 5.2 provides few tangible benefits.
> LuaJIT already includes the major new features, without breaking
> compatibility. Upgrading to be compatible with 5.2, just for the
> sake of a higher version number, is neither a priority nor a
> sensible move for most LuaJIT users."
>
> Going the LuaJIT route gives us a few benefits, two of the important
> ones are raw speed and much easier integration of C with Lua.

I really like this idea, just wondering if LuaJIT as a fallback if
they don't have a proper backend on that CPU.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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