Re: Matter of class/instance form/function...

[Hakki Dogusan <dogusanh@...>]

Hi,

Renato Maia wrote:
> Hi Hakki.
>
> On 9/17/07, Hakki Dogusan <dogusanh@tr.net> wrote:
> > What is the status of this library? Latest news is one year old..
>
> Actually the LOOP class models are really very simple (except the
> models with inheritance cache), therefore there is not much work to be
> done about them (maybe until next Lua version ;-) and since I haven't
> found any bugs nor other people have ever reported any problems with
> them I had no real need for updates. 

I was expecting that. I read LOOP code today, then reached a conclusion 
that "alfa" status should be for something else ;)

> In fact, over the last year I
> have only included one single new operation for introspection
> purposes. Maybe, the most useful thing I could do about them right now
> is to write a better documentation talking about when they might be
> useful and, most important, when they might not be. ;-)

Yes, please! If you can add simple usage examples it'll help.

> On the other hand, the class library included in the LOOP package have
> become considerably large and complex over the last years and I've
> found *numerous* bugs and other problems related to them. But since
> they are provided as "examples" of the LOOP models (maybe a too large
> example :-) and I haven't received any feedbacks on them I didn't
> bother to update the package. However, I have all their bugs fixed and
> they are actually available (very well hidden indeed ;-) inside the
> OiL <http://oil.luaforge.net/> working releases published in the
> LuaForge website <http://luaforge.net/frs/?group_id=116>. Anyway I
> already have an updated documentation for these classes so I may
> hopefully update the LOOP package and website any time in the near
> future, but you shouldn't expect effective changes in the class
> models.
>
> Thanks for your interest.

I've downloaded oil-0.4-work8.tar.gz; I'll investigate LOOP from there.

Thanks..


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Regards,
Hakki Dogusan