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361. Re: LuaForge Documentation Efforts (score: 4)

Author: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>

Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:34:42 +0200

I saw too many good Wiki closed because of spam... :-( What was a good idea/concept has been ruined by greedy people, once again. I reckon that sometime I see a typo or want to make a small remark on

362. Re[2]: A citation on Lua (score: 4)

Author: Theodor-Iulian Ciobanu <tciobanu@...>

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:19:52 +0200

Hello perlster, That's normal. Lua was written having in mind easily extending other applications, not replacing Perl or Pythin (altough there are a few out there that use Lua for just that, like me

363. Re: comp.lang.lua?? (score: 4)

Author: Diego Nehab <diego@...>

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:35:16 -0400 (EDT)

Hi, You could start by reading the messages on this subject already posted to the list. :o) []s, Diego.

364. comp.lang.lua?? (score: 4)

Author: Mark Carter <mcturra2000@...>

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:25:44 +0100

I am completely new to Lua, so I'd thought I'd check out the forum and the mailing list. I have a suggestion (which I also posted to the forum): why not set up the usenet group comp.lang.lua, and the

365. Re: Lua Web Forums (score: 4)

Author: "Peter Loveday" <peter@...>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:04:54 -0500

If this forum were mirrored on a web forum that would be okay I guess.. in fact isn't it already on yahoo groups or somesuch? I would definitely NOT be in favour of a separate forum. The community i

366. Re: xwLua (score: 4)

Author: "Everett L.(Rett) Williams" <rett@...>

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 10:33:55 -0600

I have yet to see Mr. Winwood's apology to Mr. Cuny on this forum. His product should receive no further notice until that apology is forthcoming. I have not personally confirmed this, but others hav

367. Re: Coding a musical game using MIDI (score: 3)

Author: johannphilippe@...

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:33:51 +0100 (CET)

Dear Bruno, I think Lua is a good choice for such a task. A few thoughts : * Lua is actually embedded in a few audio softwares as a language for their API : Reaper for example (but also Renoise). The

368. Re: Coding a musical game using MIDI (score: 3)

Author: Bruno Dumoulin <bruno.dumoulin.1111@...>

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:58:21 +0100

You're making good point Bill and my instinct are also telling me to stay away from the JS jungle... Here's my first gut response to the guy on the Qt forum who pointed me the JS route... "Thanks for

369. Re: Using Lua in mingw on Windows 10 (score: 3)

Author: Egor Skriptunoff <egor.skriptunoff@...>

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2022 15:26:49 +0300

When I typed "lua", it shown: E:/msys64/usr/local/bin/lua.exe: error while loading shared libraries: lua54.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory BTW, on the forum you asked

370. The Icon for .luac files in VLC has changed to that for "Notepad" Help! (score: 3)

Author: sydsnott@...

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 13:43:41 +0100

First, an apology if I'm in the wrong forum! I'm not clever, and certainly not a developer so please be gentle with me! I'm running Windows 10 Pro ver. 1909 build 18363.778 and back in 2018 VLC Playe

371. Re: Lua Foundation? (score: 3)

Author: Andrew Starks <andrew@...>

Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:37:03 -0500

I'm one of those that would like Lua to remain as it is: a simple language designed for embedding and extending. I would also like to see more rapid adoption for new/independent projects, but this wo

372. Re: Lua Foundation? (score: 3)

Author: Marc Balmer <marc@...>

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:05:19 +0200

Am 18.04.17 um 18:53 schrieb Andrew Starks: Has something like the idea of a Lua Foundation ever come up? The reason that I ask is because there seem to be many opportunities to explore, all of which

373. Re: Some thoughts about this mailing list (score: 3)

Author: Ulrich Schmidt <u.sch.zw@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:36:16 +0100

Am 11.11.2016 um 20:58 schrieb oliver: I like the mailing list and its atmosphere like it is. For me its not a question about mailing list OR some kind of forum. Both choices coexist peaceully. I lik

374. Re: is LuaL_TNUMBER same as Lua_TONUMEBER? (score: 3)

Author: biswajit neog <biswajitneog@...>

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:18:52 +0000

Hello Dirk & Andrew First of all, thank you for your time and support. I must appreciate the work you guys have been doing by providing support selflessly on this forum Thumbs up to that. Indeed, Lua

375. Re: Proposal: Proposals are the wrong approach [prose and long] (score: 3)

Author: Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>

Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 23:45:08 -0500

[lurking=off] "... To me, this starts to suggest some sort of web based forum ..." Please no!  Too many useful mailing lists and Usenet groups have devolved and sunk into practicing wikicraft. "...no

376. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 3)

Author: Stefan <stefan@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:25:28 -0700

The Lua Forum is used by thousands and helps promote Lua to a audience that does not feel comfortable with using a mailing list Wow I did not know about that. Every time I have looked at the forum it

377. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 3)

Author: liam mail <liam.list@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 23:03:56 +0100

The Lua Forum is used by thousands and helps promote Lua to a audience that does not feel comfortable with using a mailing list Wow I did not know about that. Every time I have looked at the forum it

378. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 3)

Author: Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:06:03 +0100

I've never understood the attraction of web fora; the only advantage I can see over mailing lists is that they have a web interface; and that can be easily overcome by using webmail and having a sear

379. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 3)

Author: Stefan <stefan@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:46:09 -0700

20 requests per second is not that much, it should not be a problem for PHP. What is your bottleneck, Web frontends or the database? Do you use FastCGI? Have you tried tuning the number of PHP proces

380. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 3)

Author: Coda Highland <chighland@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:21:48 -0700

While I agree with you in the sense that this is a very large wheel to be reinventing, I unfortunately can't recommend any other existing forum software because they all have major problems of some s