Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: network 2-player game

[Tacvek]

> My previous message answeing this question was somewhat unclear.
> I'm not sure what effect the error change would have on the levels. If any 
> level attempts
> to check to errors using "call" then then they sould upgrade to "pcall". 
> _LASTERROR will no longer
> be available.

Actually I kept _LASTERROR because it was actually simpler to do so.

Anyway, My port of enigma to 5.1 is currently working, although I'm 
concerned about the userdata related code.
I wanted to be able to run an actual Enigma level before releasing the 
patch, but I've run into
the "%" upvale problem in startup.lua, and expect to continue hitting that 
error.

So I'll explain my concern about userdata: In Lua 5, userdata can hold 
arbitrary data. However, I only had a pointer. So I stored the pointer as 
the data. The problem is that the functions to retrive the userdata will now 
return a pointer pointing to my pointer, which then points to the object. 
The existing code *might*only be dereferncing one pointer, although the 
existing code may be fine due to the changes found in tolua 5 (on which 
tolua++ is based).

So I'll cleanup the patch (some) and publish it in the next day or two.

It will be based on revision 99.
Ideally other patches would be put on hold, This patch applied, Some patches 
cleaning up some messiness of this patch (inconsitant indetation etc.be 
applied, patches to the lua files to update them to lua 5.1 be applied, and 
then resuming regular development.
The reason for that would be because even a small change to the current 
source could break the patch.

Of course, that decision is up to the actual developers.

> (Note my patch would neglect things like the changelog entries but 
> compaired to the relative difficulty of changing the c code, that would be 
> easy for somebody else to supply on my behalf. I will also likely need to 
> switch to tolua++ to be able to support Lua 5.1).