Re: [ANN] Pluto 2.0 released

["Ben Sunshine-Hill" <sneftel@...>]

On Feb 8, 2008 9:19 PM, Ben Sunshine-Hill <sneftel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 12:15 AM,  <hisham.hm@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried building Pluto 2.1 as an .so module using LuaRocks, but while
> > I was able to write a rockspec that builds it, the module itself fails
> > to load due to unexported symbols in the Lua interpreter. I assume
> > that these internal functions can't be bundled in the pluto.so module
> > at risk of causing the problems that are commonly mentioned here on
> > the list about duplicated Lua libraries within a process, and as such
> > Pluto can't be built as a stand-alone .so module, and only works by
> > having its .o linked to Lua directly; is that correct?
>
> Pluto can be built standalone, but it needs to be linked statically
> with the Lua core for those functions. This is obviously sub-optimal;
> right now I'm working on a version which removes this dependency by
> implementing the internal functions it uses in a standalone manner.

The new version (2.2) now includes all its dependencies other than the
Lua public interface.

Ben