Lua Development Model

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• Where is the Lua source code repository?
• Where is the test suite?
• Why don't you add X to the language?
• How does the language evolve?

For background:

• [About Lua] - core features
• [The Evolution of Lua] and [other papers]
• [Lua Authors]
• [Lua Versions]

Some discussions:

• LuaList:2007-09/msg00477.html LuaList:2007-09/msg00476.html
• LuaList:2008-12/msg00488.html [continued]
• LuaList:2007-12/msg00394.html
• LuaList:2000-03/msg00053.html

Official Lua source:

• http://www.lua.org/download.html + any patches at http://www.lua.org/bugs.html

Non-official source control repositories:

• [repo.or.cz/w/lua.git] - git repository of Lua versions >= 1.0 [discussion]
• [lua5_history] - Mercurial repository of Lua versions >= 5.0

Lua test suite:

• http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lua/lua5.1-tests.tar.gz [1]

Lua source code hosting:

• [LuaForge] (archives/CVS)
• [SourceForge] (archives/SVN/CVS)
• [Google Code] (archives/SVN/Mercurial)
• [github] (git)
• [gitorious] (git)
• [repo.or.cz] (git)
• [bitbucket] (Mercurial)
• [lua-users wiki] (wiki)

Other links: (Lua proper is only a small part of the Lua development community)

• LuaDistributions - repackagings of Lua
• LuaImplementations - reimplementations of Lua
• LuaAddons/ModuleReview - third-party modules and tools added to Lua
• FeatureProposals - some proposed additions to the language
• LuaFiveTwo - features being implemented in version 5.2
• LuaPowerPatches - patches to Lua
• LuaSource - describing the source code
• LuaBooks - books authored on Lua
• See "Community" under LuaDirectory for mail list, wiki, workshops, etc.