Suravi 1.0 Beta4 release

Suravi aims to be a small distribution of Lua (www.lua.org) and Ravi (https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi) with batteries included. The packages included in this release are:

• Ravi (MIR JIT enabled on Linux)
• luafilesystem
• lua-protobuf
• luasocket
• lpeglabel
• torch7
• torch7-nn
• torch7-optim
• torch7-autograd
• torch7-cephes
• penlight
• moses
• lua-cjson
• luv (libuv binding)

Changes:

Ravi has been updated to version 1.0 Beta4. This update of Ravi brings following benefits:

• Bug fixes to 'defer' statement implementation
• Generational Garbage Collector back-ported from Lua 5.4
• New random number generator back-ported from Lua 5.4
• Various updates to MIR JIT backend

Downloads:

• The best way to get Suravi is to obtain it as a docker image. Try this:

docker pull redukti/suravi:latest
docker run --rm -it redukti/suravi:latest

Alternatively, a Windows binary package is included in the release.

Documentation:

One of the goals of Suravi is to evolve towards an integrated system of libraries, with unified documentation. This is work in progress, but you can view the latest documentation at https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/Suravi/tree/master/Documentation.

All feedback welcome!

Regards
Dibyendu