Lua C API Changes

["Antonio E. Scuri" <Antonio.Scuri@...>]

  I know that evolution needs changes. But I also know that stability 
brings trust.

  We develop many bindings of our C libraries to Lua. These bindings are 
small but they are not that simple. Also they are very stable, and they 
need only a few changes or no changes after a new library version.

  Recently for every new version of Lua We usually have to write a 
completely new binding code because of the Lua C API changes.

  Also our many applications are not using the new version of Lua, because 
they are written in C and so good working code has to be changed because of 
an API change.

  Lua code is much simpler to change. But our C code is not. We are still 
using Lua 3.2. So...

  Isn't there a time for stability ?      or      Should we re-write our C 
code to Lua 4 ? Are we going to re-write it again for Lua 5 and so on ? 
Does this make sense?

scuri