Re: Announcing lua-xgettext [Was? Re: Status of ltokens?]

[Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@...>]

On 2006-10-20, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> I didn't do it earlier because I was not sure whether you needed a library
> or a standalone application. Since it seems to be the latter and since not
> everyone has Haskell installed, I've updated my lstrip to dump the token
> stream, one token per line. Just call it as "lstrip -d". 

Of course, the support for concatenation is only in the simplish
'lua-xgettext' tool, and not in the parser/tokenizer library 
itself, which just build a syntax tree
<http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/lua-xgettext/Kuu/AST.hs>.

While my tool does depend on GHC, it is infact easier to install 
for many people in my "audience", than what would be needed for 
anything based on lstrip -- or the former ltokens too: 'apt-get install
ghc' versus getting the Lua source code tarball for the "private" 
headers and so on. Of course, for many people on Windows the latter 
may be less work, especially if they've had to manually build Lua 
already, unlike the user of Debian or another Linux/*BSD distribution
with a comprehensive and easily accessible package collection. lstrip
etc. OTOH probably aren't polished or important enough to make it 
into many distributions.

-- 
Tuomo