Re: My wish list :) [RE: How can we make lua better?]

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

> > I could easily write a loadlibrary, but this misses the point entirely.
> 
> > I don't want to have to take everyone else's modules and produce versions
> > that are compatible with 'my' loadlibrary, then have someone else do the
> > same thing, and another...
> 
> I thought you were talking about compiled libraries, so & dll, etc. I often
> think people are talking about the C side instead of the Lua side.

Yep, I am indeed talking about the need for a standard for C side compiled
libraries and a way for end-users to load them and use them.

> This sounds like a job for "require", & library is a bad term to use here.
> If not "require", then I'm sure I saw this sort of thing somewhere...

This is a separate, and also needed, feature.


Love, Light and Peace,

- Peter Loveday
Director of Development, eyeon Software