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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: 5.1.5-5mamba
Group:Applications/Development
Maintainer:silvan
License:MIT
Size:237.77 kB
Upstream URL:https://lua.org/
Build time:2024-05-13 13:02:12
Binary packages and requirements
x86_64aarch64i586
Built RPMSliblua51
liblua51-devel
lua51
lua51-debug
liblua51
liblua51-devel
lua51
lua51-debug
liblua51
liblua51-devel
lua51
lua51-debug
Build requirementsglibc-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
DatePackagerReleaseDescription
2024-05-13silvan5.1.5-5mamba- liblua51: added legacy provides for soname liblua.so.5.1
2024-05-11silvan5.1.5-4mamba- rebuilt with coinstallability with more recent versions
2013-07-20silvan5.1.5-3mamba- provide liblua5.1.so* using symlinks
2013-04-23silvan5.1.5-2mamba- make devel package installable without conflicting with mainstream lua version
2012-12-15autodist5.1.5-1mamba- automatic version update by autodist
2012-08-15silvan5.1.4-3mamba- rebuilt as legacy package
2010-12-31silvan5.1.4-2mamba- rebuilt with debug package
2008-12-04gil5.1.4-1mamba- update to 5.1.4
2008-07-07silvan5.1.3-1mamba- update to 5.1.3
- fix liblua.so: make it a symlink to liblua.so.*
2007-10-26aleph05.1.2-3mamba- do not provide liblualib.so