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Does Alien or the luarocks Alien wrapper support different versions of lua at the moment?
I want to support the three latest version (5.1, 5.2 and 5.3) and I was wondering what's the best approach to achieve it, i have in mind some alternatives:
- Let Alien-Luarocks to use the binary
luarocks
that is currently linked and support an utility in the Lua package/Recipe to switch the lua version somehow. We can also have different recipes for older versions of lua (Lua1, Lua2) and let Lua to point to the latest version (5.3 now) (we will need the same for the Luarocks package/Recipe obviously) - Add support into the Alien-Luarocks wrapper to specify the version/binary of lua we want to use.
if the versioning is not supported which option makes more sense for you?