Re: [LuaCheia] Let it begin. was

["D Burgess" <david@...>]

My offer is IBM iSeries ports, 
LuaCheia is my preferred name.
I would suggest that we also add
rational and arbitrary precision real numbers
(as userdata types) to LuaCheia. 
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>First of all, I did a little wiki page with some
>of the ideas brought up ideas on it:
>
>http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaCheia
>
>(Beware the embarassing typo's I've probably made, sorry)
>
>Martin Spernau wrote:
>> 
>> Ok so now we have several suggestions for a name:
>> * LuaMAX
>> * LuaCheia
>> * FullMoon
>> (I personall favor the 'FullMoon')
>
>Unfortunately FullMoon is already used for another Lua poject. 
>And google tells me that LuaCheia is a rare search term,
>so it will "stand out". So, I hope we can agree on LuaCheia?
>
>> So we need to decide on one, and also we should think about how to
>> coordinate, host etc. this project.
>> 
>> Several options:
>> * use the existing lua-users.org (SourceForge) environment (CVS, webserver,
>> maillist)
>> * start a new SourceForge project
>> * self host (I could volunteer some space and bandwidth, CVS etc.)
>
>I'm in favour of Sourceforge. It's probably the fastest then
>to reuse the lua-users.org, as this is essentiallly a lua-users 
>project. I already have a developer account on SorceForge
>under the name "Beoran", so if the owner of tle lua-users.org
>project doesn't mind (is that you), then I'd go for reusing that one.
>
>
>> Next question is how seperated/interlaced we want to keep it. Do we keep
>> discussions on this list, and continue to use/expand the existing Wiki? Or
>> do we 'branch'?
>> Both options have pro/cons.
>
>If the people on this list don't oppose it, I would keep on using
>this list for now, at least until we have an alpha version to present 
>to the public. To make it easier to recognise and filter the messages 
>on this topic, I propose to always put the marker [LuaCheia]
>in the subject, as I did now.
>
>> And then, who is going to 'be in charge'? Do we have one person maintaining
>> the project or does anybody contribute? Or something inbetween like a group
>> of people?
>
>I'd hope to make it a group, but we should impose ourselves some
>guidelines 
>and restrictions. 
>
>
>> Maybe everyone intersted could give a short statement as to the level of
>> contribution they would like / can give. (Some already have)
>> 
>> -> I could volunteer to do some coordination, website, and such, as I'm not
>> very good at C/C++ (I specialize in scripting, currently a lot PHP, but I
>> also did VB, Perl and some Delphi).
>
>Good. I would also do some coordination, Linux ports, and help
>with setting up some flexible kind of build system. Perhaps 
>the Lua based Premake http://premake.sourceforge.net/
>is of any use?
>
>Anyway, after we decide about the practical details, we need to decide
>on
>the technical details of the project. What kind of dynamic library
>loading
>API will we use? GluaX? Something based on loadlib()? Will we
>use tolua also, or not? How will we also archieve statical linking? What
>libraries will we include in the first version? And so on...
>
>
>-- 
>"No one knows true heroes, for they speak not of their greatness." -- 
>Daniel Remar.
>Björn De Meyer 
>bjorn.demeyer@pandora.be