Re: Regarding lua bugs and the lua tarball download

[Craig Barnes <craigbarnes85@...>]

On 11 October 2013 17:43, Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hmm so what about always offering patch files? I think it would be of
> help, since I suppose most people would rather not wait for a minor
> release in an uncertain amount of time with the bugs so publicly
> announced. The patches are there of course, but it's just a bit of a
> hassle to copy them all out (not undoable or a huge problem, just
> unnecessarily lengthy).
>

Lua 5.2 is Lua 5.2. The notion of a "release" and the benefits thereof
are a fairly well accepted concept. Making patches available rather
than just descriptions would encourage people to do something they
shouldn't. Imagine the confusion it would cause to have many subtly
different versions out there all claiming to be "Lua 5.2".