Re: 2.0.5 and above breaking Lua 5.1?

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 07:29:11AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Yes, I tested with both 5.1.4 and 5.2 (but not with 5.0).

I didn't test 5.0 either, FWIW.

> It maybe would have been a better idea to define a new
> "swig_lua_rawlen" macro for all versions of Lua, instead of defining
> lua_rawlen for pre-5.2 versions.  If there are bugs, that might at
> least make the failure mode a bit less confusing...

I think the current approach is good - it means users can write custom
typemaps using the Lua 5.2 API and they are likely to work for older
versions too.

Cheers,
    Olly

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