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64 <h2><a name="overview"></a>Overview</h2>
66 <p>Rings is a library which provides a way to create new Lua states from within
67 Lua. It also offers a simple way to communicate between the creator (master) and
68 the created (slave) states.</p>
70 <p>Rings is free software and uses the same <a href="license.html">license</a>
73 <h2><a name="status"></a>Status</h2>
76 Rings <a href="#history">version 1.1.0</a>
77 is now available for <a href="#download">download</a>.</p>
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81 <p>Rings can be downloaded in source code from its
82 <a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/rings/files">LuaForge</a>
83 page. If you are using
84 <a href="http://luaforge.net/projects/luabinaries/">LuaBinaries</a>,
85 a Windows precompiled version of Rings can also be found at the same
88 <h2><a name="history"></a>History</h2>
91 <dt><strong>Version 1.1</strong> [11/Jun/2007]</dt>
92 <dd>Adapted to work with Lua 5.1.</dd>
93 <dt><strong><a href="http://www.keplerproject.org/rings/1.0">Version 1.0</a></strong> [10/Mar/2006]</dt>
94 <dd>First public version, works with Lua 5.0.</dd>
97 <h2><a name="credits"></a>Credits</h2>
99 <p>Rings was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy and Tomás Guisasola
100 as part of the <a href="http://www.keplerproject.org">Kepler Project</a>.
101 The implementation was coded by Tomás Guisasola.</p>
103 <p>Rings development was sponsored by
104 <a href="http://www.fabricadigital.com.br">Fábrica Digital</a>.</p>
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108 <p>For more information please
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110 Comments are welcome!</p>
112 <p>You can also reach other Kepler developers and users on the Kepler Project
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