Re: Standard general purpose library (was: lposix library for Lua 5.1)

[Rici Lake <lua@...>]

On 16-Oct-06, at 7:02 PM, Natanael Copa wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:10:40 -0400
> Ralph Hempel <rhempel@hempeldesigngroup.com> wrote:
> > Build a standard library that a majority uses and can be made
> > partially loadable and you have a winner.
>
> What would be required make this a reallity and not just talk?
>
> Would trying to collect all current libs (like luafilesystem and
> lposix) and list all functions be a start?
>
> Where could this be done? On wiki?

That was kind of the point of 
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ExtensionProposal

The idea was to define interfaces (that is, how functions would work if 
implemented), and collect implementations for particular OS's. (At 
least, that was my idea :) ). I don't know that there is consensus on 
this idea, but it seems more reasonable to me than having every OS 
interface be idiosyncratically different and under-documented.

I think this is orthogonal to CPAN and PEAR. That is, it only attempts 
to specify OS-specific interfaces, and only those OS-specific 
interfaces which are likely to be implementable on more than one OS.