Re: lua5 palmos port (general 16 bit)

["José dos Santos Machado" <jose@...>]

Hi ALL ! 

Bernoit has just sent me the code he started, and I've already got a project 
on the SourceForge.Net about Lua5 X PalmOS. 

I intend to put the code there ASAP (tonight at home), but I'm a little bit 
newbie there (sf.net). 

So, if someone wants to join the program, and knows Lua5 source code well, 
please be welcome ! :) 

BTW, I'm not a Lua5 "damn I'm good" programmer, but I do have some PalmOS 
experience (4 years by now). 

The project will be released on the MIT license, as Lua is. 

Porting issues ? Well, memory model is one of them, but there are some more 
interesting as I see: "sprintf" is one of them. We do have some other issues 
with floating numbers and math lib, but I'm sure we'll solve them. 

Here's the project address:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/luapalmos 

Thanks to all ! And sorry by typos and bad coding... :) 

-- J. Machado
-- machado@palmcon.com.br 


Roberto Ierusalimschy escreveu:
> > People may be interested to know that Lua4 seems to exhibit far fewer 
> > problems when porting to PalmOS.
>
> We are very interested to know about that. We try to make Lua more
> portable every time. If Lua 5.0 is worse than 4.0 in that aspect,
> something went wrong (and we should learn about it). 
>
>
> > Perhaps we can track down the owner of one of the source forge
> > projects for PalmOS Lua and make the work public. I assume the authors
> > of Lua have no problem with this so long as the original copyright
> > messages remain intact, just to be sure I will read through the
> > licence later.
>
> As long as the goal is clear (build a port of Lua to PalmOS) and you
> do not call the project "Lua" ("plua" is already taken, but LuaPalm,
> PalmLua, or anything like that is ok), there is no problem at all. Quite
> the opposite:  We also long for an open port of Lua to Palm. 
>
> -- Roberto