On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:39 PM, steve donovan
<steve.j.dono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Choonster TheMage
> <choonster.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> All the modules still use the module function, which doesn't work with
>> 5.2 unless compiled with LUA_COMPAT_ALL defined. Is this intended?
>
>
> I guess it was simply the line of least resistance. Distributions will use
> LUA_COMPAT_ALL  (although embedders might make other choices).  If the
> global 'module' does not exist, it's actually fairly straightforward to
> write a replacement (code on request)
>
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I already wrote a quick module and package.seeall replacement using
setfenv from Penlight's utils module (and added a single require line
at the top of LR's command_line.lua file). There's no particular
reason I didn't compile 5.2 with LUA_COMPAT_ALL, I just didn't think
to enable it.

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