Re: ANN: luacheia alpha1 release

[Martin Spernau <martin@...>]

> > Also since IUP also contains the Lua source, and you want to make
> > IUP a module, at least one of you will have to concede...
> >    
>
> Agreed.  I imagine a modulized IUP would use the luacheia build
> system, and clearly it would need to link to the same Lua libs as the
> core.  AFAIK no luacheia developers have looked at this yet.  I did
> some wxLua work though so the issues are probably similar.
>  
The reason I haven't looked into IUPLua yet is a lack (?) of examples, 
but maybe I haven't looked hard enough...
With wxLua the benefits are instanty visible, it comes with a nice 
Lua-Editor as default and many nice GUI examples. Maybe some obvious 
usage-examples of IUP/Lua would be helpfull...

-Martin

> Note: we would love it if somebody volunteered to adapt IUP as a
> module for luacheia!
>
> (Ditto for debugging the wxLua module, adding other modules, etc!)
>
>  
>
> >    * rewriting wrapper names (for example, SDL.LoadBMP instead of 
> > SDL.SDL_LoadBMP)
> >    
>
> Yup, noted.  Basically this is up to whoever the module maintainer is.
> If it's me, I generally try to change as little as possible, and set
> myself up for as little maintenance work as possible, if I'm working
> with an existing lib.
>
> In the case of SDL, Asko Kauppi is in charge of the module now.  When
> I made a Lua4 wrapper, I used the double namespace because tolua
> didn't have an easy way to remove the prefix.  Plus symbols like
> SDLK_* would have needed extra attention.
>
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