Switch Lua5.1 to Lua5.3 for some core packages

Feature Requests
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Switch Lua5.1 to Lua5.3 for some core packages: libuci-lua, libubus-lua, libubox-lua.

Lua5.1 does not support INT64 which puts a lot of limitations on programming.

2

I think the idea is to switch to Java and remove lua completely to move processing tasks to the client.

3

You mean JavaScript

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Only for Luci, I badly hope ! And an update of Lua5.1 to Lua5.3 I also consider a good idea. Some people, like me, do some serious coding in LUA, to run on openwrt platform.

5

Once luci's dependency on lua5.1 is gone, updating lua would be easier (no API compatibility issues anymore); it might move to the packages feed (for better or worse) then as well (if it's no longer in the critical path for an OpenWrt release image).

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There‘s a considerable amount of 3rd party LuCI apps still being written in Lua, so support for Lua 5.1 will need to stay to accommodate the legacy luci-lua-runtime.