[ANN] Compat-5.3 v0.1

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Hello!

In the time-honored tradition of Compat-5.1[1] and Compat-5.2[2] I'm 
happy to announce the first release (version 0.1) of Compat-5.3, a 
compatibility module that tries to make Lua 5.1/5.2 more like the new 
and shiny Lua 5.3. Compat-5.3 consists of a Lua module (plus some 
accompanying C modules backported from the Lua 5.3 source) and a set of 
.h/.c files which provide most of the Lua 5.3 API, both Lua standard 
library functions and C API, for projects using Lua 5.1 or Lua 5.2. 
Using the new Lua 5.3 API everywhere can now be as easy as `#include 
"compat-5.3.h"` or `require("compat53")`!
More information (what's implemented, what is not) is in the README at 
the bottom of the Github page[3].

The Lua API part of Compat-5.3 is also available as a rock on 
Moonrocks[4] (so the usual `luarocks install compat53` should work), 
while you can get the C API part directly from the Github repository[5]. 
Both parts are MIT-licensed.

Feedback, contributions, and pull requests are welcome!

Philipp


  [1]: http://keplerproject.org/compat/
  [2]: https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.2
  [3]: https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.3
  [4]: https://rocks.moonscript.org/modules/siffiejoe/compat53
  [5]: https://github.com/keplerproject/lua-compat-5.3/tree/master/c-api