One of the Lua authors responded to your Lua bug request now: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/90101 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.

One of the Lua authors responded to your Lua bug request now: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/90101 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/90101 The response gives me faith that the problems you discuss do not plague all projects :). It may be that other responders, not being directly involved in development, were trying to help you find a workaround to unblock you. For other end-users trying to be helpful, the most helpful thing they can often do is post a workaround, given that they don't maintain the project either. Perhaps these responses could be worded more eloquently (admitting you might have found a bug), but that doesn't necessarily mean they're malicious.