Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10881] lua_bitop doesn't compile with Lua 5.3
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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:12:30 +0000

Comment # 36 on bug 10881 from 
(In reply to João Valverde from comment #35)
> (In reply to Balint Reczey from comment #34)
> > Reading through all the reviews and email discussions on -dev I think adding
> > Lua 5.3 support would be beneficial, for the reasons Peter explained:
> > https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201608/msg00147.html
> 
> Peter made some very good points.
> 
> I look forward to reviewing your code implementing wslua compatibility with
> 5.1/5.2/5.3 and Lua BitOp with 64 bit support.

To clarify my point I don't think we should ensure bitop backwards
compatibility.
We can break the Lua API in every few major releases, it is still way more
pleasant than the C API.

I don't think sticking to obsoleted custom solutions is worth the pain while
Lua as a language evolves.
5.4 will probably be a bit different again and we may end up supporting only
5.4
skipping 5.3 in Wireshark 2.4.

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