[OE-core] [oe] Add lua to oe-core.

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 7 August 2013 15:23, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
> Randy MacLeod <randy.macleod at windriver.com> [2013-07-25 15:57:58]:
>
>> lua-5.2.2 is current, see: http://www.lua.org/download.html
>> so we'd likely uprev and send that version.
>
> Just FYI Lua 5.2 has quite a lot of changes to Lua 5.1[1].  So I wouldn't
> consider it as an drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1. Simply said it's not
> compatible out of the box.

 Yes, 5.1 and 5.2 are incompatible to extend that there simply is no
way to do some things so that it would work with both (5.1 has it one
way, 5.2 has it another way, and neither understand the other) It can
take some effort to switch application from using lua 5.1 to using lua
5.2.


 - ML