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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
We're using it in KOReader w/ LuaJIT, which is mostly 5.1, so check that?
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Yeah - that is a bigger question, for someone else.
LuaJIT(.org) has promised their user community to continue 5.1 support.
That decision was made based on: "there is so much code written for 5.1 that it will take forever to update all of it".
Well, forever has come.
Meanwhile, I have a plan -
First rule out PEBCAK - the debian archive I used contains lfs for both 5.1 and 5.2 :
Make sure that I just didn't click on the wrong *.so when moving things to the Kindle/Lua layout.
Then, find a copy of lfs (lua-filesystem-1.5.?) that builds against lua-5.1, then backport the function entries from lua-filesystem-1.6.?.
Meanwhile, keeping my own lfs repo that **does** span the changes from 5.1 -> 5.2
such is this morning's plan - as I drown in the Debian source archives from the turn of the century.
I suppose the Python community is facing similar issues in the 2.7 -> 3.0 change.
Whoot!
Debian-3.0 has (had) Lua-4.0 available (but no lfs), so the chances of my finding lua-5.1 has just increased.
Debian-4.0 introduced lua-expat, lua-curl, and lua-filesystem for lua-5.1
Now to find those sources.
At the worst, I should have them on one of my computers or backup disks.
Got'em:
Code:
core2quad lua-filesystem $ ls -1 *.orig.*
lua-filesystem_1.2.orig.tar.gz
lua-filesystem_1.4.1.orig.tar.gz
lua-filesystem_1.4.2.orig.tar.gz
lua-filesystem_1.5.0+16+g84f1af5.orig.tar.gz
lua-filesystem_1.6.2.orig.tar.gz
lua-filesystem_1.6.3.orig.tar.gz
Now to spend the day bashing my head against that wall.
New home is at:
https://github.com/janetizzy/lua51-filesystem
Now I just have to figure out where support for lua-5.1 went to between lfs-1.6.2 and lfs-1.6.3
At least that is what the README says happened.
Update:
I reverted to lfs-1.6.2 for our Kindle/Lua and now:
Code:
[root@kindle testme]# lua -lesys
Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> lfs = require'lfs'
> os.exit()
There are a lot of 'code fixes' in lfs-1.6.3 that would be nice to have, but for now it will be lfs-1.6.2