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Lua 5.1. Or more new version?

Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2020 7:25 pm
by Adrian
I read article here about compiling.
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Compiling

I can see there, that recommended version of Lua is 5.1.
What if to install newer version? Does it matter?

The current version is Lua 5.4.

Re: Lua 5.1. Or more new version?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:29 am
by abcdefg30

Re: Lua 5.1. Or more new version?

Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:30 am
by Adrian
Thank you! Now I understand.

Another question:
Are there any plans to rewrite that "Eluant" in new Lua?

Problem.
It looks like Lua 5.1. absolutly has no support of non-ASCII characters. So user cannot use not Latin symbols (from different languages).

I cannot even write comment in Lua file with non-ASCII characters, for example.

Re: Lua 5.1. Or more new version?

Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:36 am
by abcdefg30
There are ideas to move to another library (which e.g. would also help with savegames). We first need to sort some other internals out though (e.g. the move to .NET core 5.)