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Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.
Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language.
For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance.
Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways.
Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua.
lua51-5.1.5-cflags.patch
lua51-5.1.5-coinstallability.patch
lua51-5.1.5-cve-2014-5461.patch
lua51.spec
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lua51: A powerful light-weight and embeddable programming language
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications.Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language.
Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics.
Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language.
For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance.
Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways.
Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua.
| Name: | lua51 |
| Release: | 5.1.5-6mamba |
| Group: | Applications/Development |
| Maintainer: | silvan |
| License: | MIT |
| Size: | 239.00 kB |
| Upstream URL: | https://lua.org/ |
| Build time: | 2026-10-21 02:59:10 |
Source files
lua-5.1.5.tar.gzlua51-5.1.5-cflags.patch
lua51-5.1.5-coinstallability.patch
lua51-5.1.5-cve-2014-5461.patch
lua51.spec
Binary packages and requirements
| x86_64 | aarch64 | i586 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built RPMS | liblua51 liblua51-devel lua51 lua51-debug | liblua51 liblua51-devel lua51 lua51-debug | liblua51 liblua51-devel lua51 lua51-debug |
| Build requirements | glibc-devel [1] libncurses-devel [1] libreadline-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] libncurses-devel [1] libreadline-devel [1] | glibc-devel [1] libncurses-devel [1] libreadline-devel [1] |
History of changes
| Date | Packager | Release | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | autodist | 5.1.5-6mamba | - automatic rebuild by autodist |
| 2024-05-13 | silvan | 5.1.5-5mamba | - liblua51: added legacy provides for soname liblua.so.5.1 |
| 2024-05-11 | silvan | 5.1.5-4mamba | - rebuilt with coinstallability with more recent versions |
| 2013-07-20 | silvan | 5.1.5-3mamba | - provide liblua5.1.so* using symlinks |
| 2013-04-23 | silvan | 5.1.5-2mamba | - make devel package installable without conflicting with mainstream lua version |
| 2012-12-15 | autodist | 5.1.5-1mamba | - automatic version update by autodist |
| 2012-08-15 | silvan | 5.1.4-3mamba | - rebuilt as legacy package |
| 2010-12-31 | silvan | 5.1.4-2mamba | - rebuilt with debug package |
| 2008-12-04 | gil | 5.1.4-1mamba | - update to 5.1.4 |
| 2008-07-07 | silvan | 5.1.3-1mamba | - update to 5.1.3 - fix liblua.so: make it a symlink to liblua.so.* |