ISTR that when Lua scripting was added with the Mantle project, there
may have been some modification of the Lua system as part of the
integration.  I might be wrong about that, or there might be no trace
of that left, but ...?

Matt

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 7:59 AM Nathan Cutler <presnypreklad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > does anyone know why we have lua5.1 as a ceph submodule [1]?
> > the latest lua is available for many linux distros (centos/rhel, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, etc.), why not add it to install-deps.sh?
>
> Presumably for the same reason we have boost as a submodule.
>
> Past experience has shown that the version of foo (lua in this case)
> can vary from distro to distro. Also, each distro is a "moving target"
> in that the version of foo (lua in this case) can change, with
> consequences that are impossible to predict, at any time.
>
> HTH,
> Nathan
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