Re: Lua 5.3

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 08/08/2016 09:17 PM, João Valverde wrote:
> On 08/08/2016 05:58 PM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
> > Hi João,
> >
> > 2016-08-08 18:52 GMT+02:00 João Valverde
> > <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt
> > <mailto:joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>>:
> >
> >     Is moving to Lua 5.3 something we should look into?
> >
> >     The 64 bit integer support seems really promising.
> >
> >
> > Hariel explained us that Lua 5.3 was a completely different language (a
> > bit like what you have between Python 2.X and 3.X). You can find much
> > more info (from people knowing what they are taling about - so not me
> > ;)) in bug 10881.
> >
> > Pascal.
>
>
> Thanks for that Pascal. The only sane way to approach the issue IMHO is
> to accept that this may and probably will break backward compatibility
> (not even think about supporting 5.1 or 5.2) and just consider whether
> that break is justified (hint: it is).
>
> Not that I have the skills to do the port, just the time and
> stubbornness to attempt it. :-)

https://code.wireshark.org/review/#/c/17175/

I'd be glad to answer any questions, to the best of my knowledge.
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