[ANNOUNCE] LuaParse 0.5

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

LuaParse is a pure-Lua Lua parser intended for applications which need
to be able to reconstruct the original input, such as syntax-colourers
and transformers. The base code could be used to construct ASTs as well,
but I haven't yet written an interface for that.

Although the code could use some cleanup and some documentation, I've 
put
a working copy on LuaForge at <http://luaparse.luaforge.net/>. It 
includes
a fairly general pure-Lua lexing tool (blex), enough pieces of a CGI 
library
to construct a CGI, and a semantically-aware HTML-highlighter for Lua 
intended
to be used as a visual "linter" (currently called tnt.lua, but the name 
will
change next time I do an upload).

An experimental packaging system is included, which I suspect not many 
people
will like :) It is intended to support sandboxing for embedding Lua 
scripting
in servers such as Apache; however, the sandbox implementation is not 
currently
on the site (nor is the pure-Lua webserver that it might work with). So 
watch
this space, but don't hold your breath.

The visual linter is available on the web, for now, at
<http://lua.ricilake.net/cgi-bin/lvl>. At present it does not
work as a "pastebin", although I may add that functionality soonish.
If you like it, you can download it and install it on your own 
webserver.

I used lhf's excellent srlua tool to construct the actual CGI executable
running on the web-site. This simplified the Apache configuration
considerably, and also speeds up execution. Thanks, lhf!

Rici