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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2014-03-28 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
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

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

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

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

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,

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,

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

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

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