Re: Lua and Google Summer of Code

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@...>]

Matthew M. Burke wrote:
> FYI---
>
> the funded projects for Google's Summer of Code have just been 
> announced.  Although Lua wasn't an accepted organization this year, Lua 
> is being represented amongst the funded projects:
>
> Maxime Petazzoni will be working on improvements to mod_wombat --- Brian 
> McCallister's Apache module that allows for Lua scripted responses to 
> HTTP requests.  In particular, Maxime will be working on interfacing to  
> mod_dbd so that you can access (pooled) db connections, etc from Lua 
> scripts.

Also, Arthur Reutenauer will be working on "Better Unicode compliance
in TeX" for the TeX Users Group, and he expects most of his code will
be written in Lua.

Best wishes,
Taco