Re: On updating Lua

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 01.09.16 um 16:57 schrieb Taylor R Campbell:
>    Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 13:59:49 +0200
>    From: Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>
> 
>    Would it speed up thinks if we just applied the diffs from PUC Rio
>    and commiting them, leaving out the vendor import dance?  Would
>    that have any negative side effects?  What do others on
>    tech-userlevel think?
> 
> Please do the vendor import dance -- it makes it much easier to
> identify our local changes, merge them into future versions, and
> understand the history later.  If you need help with the vendor import
> dance, I can help some time this weekend.
> 

Thanks for the offer to help.  In the meantime I read the relevant docs
and a nice article by Luke Mewburn and figured stuff out and did the
import to the vendor branch.  We are now up date with Lua 5.3.4 and all
currently know bug fixes applied.

From time to time PUC Rio publishes bug fixes on
https://www.lua.org/bugs.html without making a new release.  These bug
fixes I applied the usual way (patch, commit).

- Marc