Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-04-03 Thread Niels de Vos
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:03:36PM -0400, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
 
 On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Jeff Morriss jeff.morriss...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  In that case I'd vote no: Redhat EL 6 comes with 5.1.4 and it probably 
  has a long lifetime ahead of it.
  
  How hard/painful would it be to install Lua 5.2.x? (I don't know the 
  answer - just asking)
  It's a tiny little library compared to most of Wireshark's others, fwiw.
  
  Probably not too hard--I know Lua's small.  But most users (who just do 
  yum install lua) won't get it so we'll be losing Lua for 99% of the RHEL6 
  users.
  
  Maybe it's not that big a deal but it's worth some thought…
 
 Sadly, I know nothing about yum and RHEL6 other than as being an occasional 
 user of it. It looks like there are plenty of yum repositories with Lua 
 5.2.x, but not for RHEL6. How does one go about requesting an upgrade of that 
 - enter a ticket in Redhat as customer? (is that like crazy wishful thinking? 
 I don’t know anything about their policies for such things)

With RHEL being an Enterprise distribution, RHEL6 will likely try to 
stay at lua-5.1 for as long as it can. Likely until RHEL6 goes 
end-of-life. If lua-5.2 is completely backwards compatible (nothing 
deprecated, no behavior changes), a customer can open a support ticket 
and request an update for lua. But, these kind of requests are not 
granted often or easily.

That said, most RHEL users will likely install Wireshark from the 
standard RHEL repositories on Red Hat Network. Even Wireshark as 
a 'leaf' package (nothing depends on it) is expected to be mostly 
backwards compatible (UI, commandline parameters, ...) when a version 
update is done. Wireshark in RHEL-6.5 has been updated to version 1.8 
(RHEL-6.4 came with 1.6, iirc), and I see that as something out of the 
ordinary.

Users that prefer/need a newer version of Wireshark, are probably 
building the binaries or packages themselves. They should not have much 
difficulties with building a lua update too.

 Alternatively, if you’re running RHEL6, can you try this:
 curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz
 # or 'wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz' instead
 tar zxf lua-5.2.3.tar.gz
 cd lua-5.2.3
 make linux test
 
 If that works (and it should in theory), maybe it won’t be too painful to 
 just add that to the install instructions or even write up a simple script to 
 do it?
 
 (...just trying to think of a solution...)

That surely is one possible solution :)

Thanks,
Niels

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-04-02 Thread Jeff Morriss

On 03/31/14 18:18, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:


On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Jeff Morriss jeff.morriss...@gmail.com wrote:


Do you mean Wireshark would no longer compile/run if the Lua version was  5.2?


Yes, that would be the ultimate goal.  That way someone writing a Lua script 
and wants to share it with others doesn't have to worry about whether it will 
work for others or not. Lua 5.2 includes new built-in functions and lexical 
tokens that 5.1 did not, so writing one with 5.2 might not work if someone else 
uses 5.1.

And of course it would be nice to get rid of the C-code that has to deal with 
both as well, and not have to test on both.


Makes sense...


In that case I'd vote no: Redhat EL 6 comes with 5.1.4 and it probably has a 
long lifetime ahead of it.


How hard/painful would it be to install Lua 5.2.x? (I don't know the answer - 
just asking)
It's a tiny little library compared to most of Wireshark's others, fwiw.


Probably not too hard--I know Lua's small.  But most users (who just do 
yum install lua) won't get it so we'll be losing Lua for 99% of the 
RHEL6 users.


Maybe it's not that big a deal but it's worth some thought...

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-04-02 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Jeff Morriss jeff.morriss...@gmail.com wrote:

 In that case I'd vote no: Redhat EL 6 comes with 5.1.4 and it probably has 
 a long lifetime ahead of it.
 
 How hard/painful would it be to install Lua 5.2.x? (I don't know the answer 
 - just asking)
 It's a tiny little library compared to most of Wireshark's others, fwiw.
 
 Probably not too hard--I know Lua's small.  But most users (who just do yum 
 install lua) won't get it so we'll be losing Lua for 99% of the RHEL6 users.
 
 Maybe it's not that big a deal but it's worth some thought…

Sadly, I know nothing about yum and RHEL6 other than as being an occasional 
user of it. It looks like there are plenty of yum repositories with Lua 5.2.x, 
but not for RHEL6. How does one go about requesting an upgrade of that - enter 
a ticket in Redhat as customer? (is that like crazy wishful thinking? I don’t 
know anything about their policies for such things)

Alternatively, if you’re running RHEL6, can you try this:
curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz
# or 'wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz' instead
tar zxf lua-5.2.3.tar.gz
cd lua-5.2.3
make linux test

If that works (and it should in theory), maybe it won’t be too painful to just 
add that to the install instructions or even write up a simple script to do it?

(...just trying to think of a solution...)

-hadriel

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-31 Thread Jeff Morriss

On 03/28/14 10:29, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

Howdy,
Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua 5.2?  
Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.

There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should 
continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to 
continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, etc.  
There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There was 
back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.


Do you mean Wireshark would no longer compile/run if the Lua version was 
 5.2?


In that case I'd vote no: Redhat EL 6 comes with 5.1.4 and it probably 
has a long lifetime ahead of it.


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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-31 Thread Gerald Combs
On 3/28/14 8:42 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
 2014-03-28 16:34 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com
 mailto:hadriel.kap...@oracle.com:
 
 
 The bugs are listed here:
 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html
 
 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out
 since 2012.
 
 What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a
 5.2.3 one? Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?
 
 
 Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from
 http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).

That's correct. The Lua development teams is one of the few that provide
Windows libraries that are useable without local changes.
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-31 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Gerald Combs ger...@wireshark.org wrote:

 Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from
 http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).
 
 That's correct. The Lua development teams is one of the few that provide
 Windows libraries that are useable without local changes.

I just got an email from them that they've just released the Lua 5.2.3 binaries.
:)

-hadriel

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-31 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Jeff Morriss jeff.morriss...@gmail.com wrote:

 Do you mean Wireshark would no longer compile/run if the Lua version was  
 5.2?

Yes, that would be the ultimate goal.  That way someone writing a Lua script 
and wants to share it with others doesn't have to worry about whether it will 
work for others or not. Lua 5.2 includes new built-in functions and lexical 
tokens that 5.1 did not, so writing one with 5.2 might not work if someone else 
uses 5.1.

And of course it would be nice to get rid of the C-code that has to deal with 
both as well, and not have to test on both.


 In that case I'd vote no: Redhat EL 6 comes with 5.1.4 and it probably has a 
 long lifetime ahead of it.

How hard/painful would it be to install Lua 5.2.x? (I don't know the answer - 
just asking)
It's a tiny little library compared to most of Wireshark's others, fwiw.

-hadriel

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-29 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-03-28 20:32 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com:



 On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 2014-03-28 16:34 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com:


 The bugs are listed here:
 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html

 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since
 2012.

 What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3
 one? Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?


 Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from
 http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).


 Huh.  I figured they were just being built from source.  At my day job we
 just build the whole thing in statically, but we had to use our own anyway
 because we made some changes to the Lua engine to protect against bad Lua
 code, and we don't allow people to swap it out as a shared library/dll.


 http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaries web page suggests to go to
 http://joedf.users.sourceforge.net/luabuilds/ for a 5.2.3 pre compiled
 binary but it does not include the header files. I guess I could get them
 from the source package.


 Yup.


Hi,

I just upgraded the Windows build system in ga1d4189 so as to use Lua
5.2.1. If required, we might change it to 5.2.3 later.

Cheers,
Pascal.
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Evan Huus
If 5.2 has been out for three years at this point it sounds fine to me.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Hadriel Kaplan
hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote:
 Howdy,
 Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua 5.2? 
  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.

 There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should 
 continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to 
 continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, etc.  
 There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There was 
 back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.

 -hadriel

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-03-28 16:02 GMT+01:00 Bálint Réczey bal...@balintreczey.hu:

 +1
 The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.

 Cheers,
 Balint

 2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro nakayamakenj...@gmail.com:
  +1
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan 
 hadriel.kap...@oracle.com
  wrote:
 
  Howdy,
  Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
  5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.
 
  There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
  continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have
 to
  continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix,
 etc.
  There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.
  There
  was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since
 2011.
 
  -hadriel


Is 5.2.3 a must have? Right now we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows (I'm
trying to build with it as we speak) but not a 5.2.3 one.

Pascal.
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Pascal Quantin
2014-03-28 16:34 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com:


 The bugs are listed here:
 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html

 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since
 2012.

 What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3
 one? Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?


Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from
http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaries web page suggests to go to
http://joedf.users.sourceforge.net/luabuilds/ for a 5.2.3 pre compiled
binary but it does not include the header files. I guess I could get them
from the source package.

Pascal.
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

The bugs are listed here:
http://www.lua.org/bugs.html

5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since 2012.

What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3 one? 
Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?

-hadriel


On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 
 
 2014-03-28 16:02 GMT+01:00 Bálint Réczey bal...@balintreczey.hu:
 +1
 The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.
 
 Cheers,
 Balint
 
 2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro nakayamakenj...@gmail.com:
  +1
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com
  wrote:
 
  Howdy,
  Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
  5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.
 
  There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
  continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to
  continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, 
  etc.
  There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There
  was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.
 
  -hadriel
 
 Is 5.2.3 a must have? Right now we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows (I'm 
 trying to build with it as we speak) but not a 5.2.3 one.
 
 Pascal.
 
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

BTW, to answer your question directly, no I don't think it's a big deal if you 
only run 5.2.1.  The bugs fixed in 5.2.2 were pretty esoteric, and even more so 
those fixed in 5.2.3.

FWIW, I use Lua 5.2.1 on my Mac all the time (because MacPorts hasn't updated 
their Lua installer to 5.2.3 yet, and I use MacPorts).

-hadriel


On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote:

 
 The bugs are listed here:
 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html
 
 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since 2012.
 
 What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3 
 one? Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?
 
 -hadriel
 
 
 On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 
 
 2014-03-28 16:02 GMT+01:00 Bálint Réczey bal...@balintreczey.hu:
 +1
 The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.
 
 Cheers,
 Balint
 
 2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro nakayamakenj...@gmail.com:
  +1
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan 
  hadriel.kap...@oracle.com
  wrote:
 
  Howdy,
  Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
  5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.
 
  There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
  continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to
  continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, 
  etc.
  There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There
  was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.
 
  -hadriel
 
 Is 5.2.3 a must have? Right now we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows (I'm 
 trying to build with it as we speak) but not a 5.2.3 one.
 
 Pascal.
 
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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Nakayama Kenjiro
+1


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan
hadriel.kap...@oracle.comwrote:

 Howdy,
 Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
 5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.

 There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
 continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to
 continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix,
 etc.  There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.
  There was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since
 2011.

 -hadriel

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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Bálint Réczey
+1
The Debian packages use Lua since 1.10.2-2 without any problem.

Cheers,
Balint

2014-03-28 15:45 GMT+01:00 Nakayama Kenjiro nakayamakenj...@gmail.com:
 +1


 On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com
 wrote:

 Howdy,
 Is there any reason not to make wireshark 1.11.x and beyond only use Lua
 5.2?  Right now the automated builds are getting built with 5.1.

 There's very little difference to end users (i.e., older scripts should
 continue to work)... but for the C-code it's a lot more painful to have to
 continue to handle both Lua versions, and it takes longer to test, fix, etc.
 There's no real advantage to supporting both at this point, afaik.  There
 was back when Lua 5.2 was new and buggy, but 5.2 has been out since 2011.

 -hadriel


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Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can we move to Lua 5.2.3 only?

2014-03-28 Thread Hadriel Kaplan

On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Pascal Quantin pascal.quan...@gmail.com wrote:

 2014-03-28 16:34 GMT+01:00 Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com:
 
 The bugs are listed here:
 http://www.lua.org/bugs.html
 
 5.2.3 was only released this past December, but 5.2.2 has been out since 2012.
 
 What do you mean by we have a 5.2.1 library for Windows but not a 5.2.3 
 one? Do you mean from some pre-built binary repository somewhere?
 
 
 Yes exactly. Right now our binaries seem to come from 
 http://luabinaries.sourceforge.net/download.html (Gerald will confirm).

Huh.  I figured they were just being built from source.  At my day job we just 
build the whole thing in statically, but we had to use our own anyway because 
we made some changes to the Lua engine to protect against bad Lua code, and we 
don't allow people to swap it out as a shared library/dll.


 http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaBinaries web page suggests to go to 
 http://joedf.users.sourceforge.net/luabuilds/ for a 5.2.3 pre compiled binary 
 but it does not include the header files. I guess I could get them from the 
 source package.

Yup.

-hadriel


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