13:12 bapt 

Update to 5.2.4

 

00:56 bapt 

Update to 5.2.3

Pass maintainership to lua@
Lots of cleanup in the Makefile
Reduce patching
Support stage

 

18:49 mandree 

Update to new upstream version Lua 5.2.2.

According to Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo,
"Lua 5.2.2 fixes all bugs listed in http://www.lua.org/bugs.html#5.2.1 .

Lua 5.2.2 also fixes several other minors glitches and includes
a revised reference manual."

 

23:24 mandree 

Add new port lang/lua52.

Lua is a programming language originally designed for extending applications,
but also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua
combines simple procedural syntax (similar to Pascal) with powerful data
description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory
management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration,
scripting, and rapid prototyping.

A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for
implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in
the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented
language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and
inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the

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