What version of core Lua does AMS7 use?

[Buffman]

I'm having some problems loading some Lua modules and packages and I think it might be related to 5.0 vs 5.1 differences. But I thought 5.1 was going to be used in AMS7...

Is it still using Lua 5.0? Any chance of it being upgraded to 5.1?

Thanks!

[ShadowUK]

Dialog.Message(_VERSION, "") to find out.

I think it is still 5.0 though.

[Intrigued]

It's at 5.0.2 now.

[Buffman]

Thanks, that explains what I was seeing...

[Lorne]

Upgrading to 5.1 would break existing code because of syntax changes in the language.

A version that used Lua 5.1 would no longer be compatible with previous versions of Autoplay.

[RizlaUK]

well in that case, if it aint broke......dont fix it!

[Buffman]

Upgrading to 5.1 would break existing code because of syntax changes in the language.

A version that used Lua 5.1 would no longer be compatible with previous versions of Autoplay.

Thanks Lorne, this makes sense.

The only reason I was asking is because I'm having problems loading some Lua modules (LuaSocket in this case). And it seems that compat-5.1 is deprecated (the last update was 2 years ago). Recent versions of LuaSocket don't work with compat-5.1 (even outside of AMS), but I have no problems with Lua 5.1.

One of the biggest things with Lua 5.1 is module support, and I think we're going to see more and more issues with external modules.

I'd love to see AMS adopt Lua 5.1 as the new engine, but provide an option to allow 5.0 support. This way we can still have compatibility for old scripts, but give us the ability develop with the new version.