lua - A general purpose, lightweight programming language HOWTO

ChangeLog


2025-04-08	- Lua 5.4.6 -> 5.4.7
		- Added mailing list link
		- Added readme.html link
		- Added overall manual link (which includes readme.html)
		- Added Wireshark link
		- Added release date(s) note
		- Added Wikipedia link
		- Added GitHub repo mirror link
		- Added Lua-l mailing list link
		- Added lua-users wiki link
		- Added LuaRocks link
		- Manually create a lua.pc pkg-config file
		- Manually build a shared library, note about luaconf.h
		- Build with -fPIC so other things such as Wireshark
		  build successfully (same CFLAGS Slack uses)
2023-06-03	- Lua 5.1.4 -> 5.4.6
		- Home page URL from
		  http://www.lua.org/
		  to
		  https://lua.org/
		- Removed 5.0.3
		- Removed md5sum and sha1sum verification, added
		  sha256sum
2011-07-10	- Lua 5.1.3 -> 5.1.4 + patch
		- Added Nmap to the list
2008-04-01	- Lua 5.1.1 -> 5.1.3
		- Note about tolua 5.1
2006-08-16	- 5.0.2 -> 5.0.3
		- Added 5.1.1
		- Added uninstall notes to the bottom
2005-06-26	- 5.0 -> 5.0.2
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up the new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Added md5sum and sha1sum verification
		- Removed the fileutils prerequisite link (because there is
		  now a "global" coreutils link at the top)
2003-08-13	- First entry

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