On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > Dear everyone, > > As many (if not most) of you know, the Lua ecosystem is somewhat awkward > owing to the facts that on the one hand dev-lang/lua upstream has never > officially declared end of life on older versions, and on the other > dev-lang/luajit has never moved beyond 5.1 with their API support. > Still, this doesn't mean WE have to support all branches in > perpetuity... Between 5.1 being effectively here to stay due to LuaJIT > and 5.4 still being relatively new (meaning it cannot feasibly replace > 5.3 at this point), I would like to start by getting rid of 5.2 first.
Actually upstream does say when they will stop supporting each version [1]. 5.1 can go because luajit would cover it, but 5.2 is also a candidate. William [1] http://www.lua.org/versions.html
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