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261. Re: Lua Web Forums (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 10:47:40 -0500

A wiki complements forums such as this mailing list. A more appropriate question is, "Is there a need for auxiliary forums?". -John -- http:// if . /

262. Re: Back to books (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:44:30 -0500

Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote: Now I am starting to plan how to distribute the final version. The obvious option is to publish it, but for that I must find a publisher. (Suggestions? Contacts??). Other

263. Re: Idea: Lua Max, a complete standalone Lua (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:30:04 -0500

I suggested a similar project one year ago: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2002-02/msg00031.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2002-02/msg00126.html Martin Spernau wrote: Several options: * use

264. Re: GC Compaction (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:40:49 -0500

I wouldn't say that is true. Real-time games running on console systems with no virtual memory face the same hurdles. Keep an eye on how game developers deal with these issues. Also watch out for the

265. Re: GC Compaction (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:37:28 -0500

Games in Lua? Or games in C? I meant Lua, but the issue is present in any language promoting use of dynamic objects but lacking compaction, such as C++. Incremental GC is independent of compaction. I

266. Re: new mechanism for binding C++ classes and functions to lua (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:49:36 -0500

This is outstanding [*] and an example of why C++ is my other favorite language. The combination of the two may be unstoppable. -John [*] Assuming it will be released under nonproprietary license --

267. Re: Changelog for 5 (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:19:58 -0500

Been a long time since I looked at lua and I am wondering what the changes are in 5. Is there a changelog somewere, or any hit as to how close we are getting to a release and most importantly is ther

268. Re: Lua List Spam (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:11:58 -0500

If you recall, we discussed this about a year ago. At that time I found that the sourceforge list configuration was not flexible enough to make the list name be lua-l@lua.org. Sourceforge list names

269. Re: Lua List Spam (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:37:56 -0500

lhf wrote: So, can we create a SF project named "lua" and a list named "l"? It would be nice to have lua-l at lua.org but I'd settle for lua-l at lua-users.org or even lua-l at sf.net. Can this be do

270. Re: Lua List Spam (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 23:04:18 -0500

lhf wrote: The name of the list would have to be lua-users-xxx@sf.net? That's fine. We could have lua-users-general, lua-users-announcements, etc, right? We could start with lua-users-l or if possibl

271. Re: Lua at GDC (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:42:14 -0500

I have to think of something nice to say? Well, I sat in on various sessions regarding the mobile phone as a game platform. There's a fine example of a limited-resource environment for Lua to dominat

272. Re: Very small feature request (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:39:35 -0400

extern "C" { Lua and C++ are my two favorite languages, yet I disagree with you. My theoretical argument is that extern "C" is a C++ construct for binding to C modules. There are thousands of compute

273. Re: Very small feature request (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:22:34 -0400

Fabio wrote: IMHO, the extern "C" { } inside Lua is better for the app developer, maybe worse for the developers of Lua. A chance to lower the amout of stuff the user(developer) has to worry about is

274. Re: new list (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:21:30 -0500

A small issue: the site says "Lua list run by lua-l-adm at lua.org" (for example, on the completed subscription page), but the linked address is lua-owner at bazar2.conectiva.com.br. (I hope the list

275. Re: new list (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 11:44:53 -0500

Maybe it's too late now, but since we called the list "lua-l" for so many years, why not continue with the same name? Also, does it seem like too much technical trouble to use the lua.org domain? Che

276. Re: new list (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:24:26 -0500

Will this change affect the full and recent postings archives at all (including the times they are updated)? The lua-users.org list archive is dependent on those. -John -- http:// if l . /

277. Re: new list (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:28:40 -0500

Roberto wrote: We thought about that. Technically it is easy; actually it is already done: you can use "lua-l@lua.org" if you prefer. But there are too many places that shows the raw address of the l

278. Re: New list, what about lukers? (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 13:17:54 -0400

Small correction: there is no archive at the wiki, but rather at lua-users.org. -John -- http:// if l . /

279. Re: LuaAddons updated (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:28:26 -0400

If a lot of people carry on using 4.0, then a 4.0 page would be a good thing. Otherwise, why not encourage package authors (ahem, such as myself!) to update? There already is a separate page called L

280. lua-users lottery (score: 1)

Author: John Belmonte <jvb@...>

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:13:01 -0400

See http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaUsersLottery about how to win an opportunity to lose money (and help support lua-users.org). The lua-users.org site is going into its third year and the domain regist