Re: LUA for Batch Scripting

[Steve Dekorte <steve@...>]

On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 02:15  PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>I agree, though it would be nice to have a standard directory add-on
>>that supported the most popular OSes(Windows, Mac, Unix).
> Any energy people have in this direction should be directed at the
> StandardLibraryProposal on the wiki! I'd be delighted if someone or
> some people started on this. There's a lot that can be done completely
> OS-independently, and much more that can be done taking a few
> OS-specific considerations into account.

StandardLibraryProposal looks like all lua code. It's great to have 
something like that, but we still need bindings for OS stuff like 
directories.

Btw, I think it would be ideal if any work done in this direction 
isolate the OS abstraction APIs from the Lua binding. This way, any/all 
scripting languages could share the code.

For example, instead of:

static void luadirlib_directoryContentsAt(void)
{
  char *path = luaL_check_string(1);
  ...platform specific code...
  ...lua code to push results...
}

do:

static void luadirlib_directoryContentsAt(void)
{
  char *path = luaL_check_string(1);
  results = dirlib_directoryContentsAt(path)
  ...lua code to push results...
}

And make the dirlib a seperately compilable library from lua_dirlib.

Steve