When in Red Pill Mode, I saw that the following libraries were available for installation (via the Application Manager):

liblua50
liblua50-dev
liblualib50
liblualib50-dev

Is that all that is needed to develop lua programs on the tablet?

(And no, I have never been in Red Pill Mode, it wasn't me, I deny everything!)

I just noticed that

lua50
lua50-doc

are also available. I install these and give it a try. Is there any way to get these packages bumped up to version 5.1, the most recent implementation of lua?

I uploaded lua packages because boswars needs them. Version 5.0 because it built first without errors and 5.1 and 5.0 seem to be compatible anyway.

packages should contain the whole debian's lua5.0 distribution

Thanks. And does this mean that if I still would like to go with version 5.1 that I would have to bribe/convince/coax/ask you to upload that version?

Curious...

p.s. the install went well

There are some incompatibilities between 5.0 and 5.1 and sometimes they may matter: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7

Lua itself is *very* lightweight and sometimes it makes sense linking with it statically or even importing it to the source tree of the project in order not to deal with version incompatibilities.

Just found on the Debian site that the 5.1 package is also available. I'll try to install that later with apt-get. I'll keep you posted...

Ouch: Silly, silly me: arm.deb does not equal armel.deb. I do apologize.

OK, I uploaded lua5.1 to extras-devel

Downloaded and installed. Thank you