Re: [ANN] Lua For Windows v5.1.3.10 Public Alpha7 released

[Ross Berteig <Ross@...>]

Ryan, this is getting pretty close to being ready. There is 
always room for more and better documentation, but it is looking 
very nice as it stands.

A couple of notes...

* Changing all of the U+00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE) characters to 0x20 
in examples\quickluatour.lua allows lua.exe to parse it, and my 
text editor no longer thinks it is UTF-8-NO-BOM encoded so there 
probably weren't any other accidental uses of characters outside 
the safe 7-bit ASCII page. It looks pretty nice, and like a 
decently comprehensive overview of the language. Kudos are owed 
to AGR Wilson for creating this.

* The quick tour's example 24 has a typo: the second line of the 
example should be a comment but is actually a unary minus in 
front of a nonsense expression which causes an error when that 
example is executed.

* A minor nit is that the IUP example can't (or maybe just 
doesn't) force the dialog it opened to be the front most window, 
meaning it was hidden behind the console window due to the 
arcane precedence rules of Windows. An additional sentence that 
says a little more strongly that there is a window to look for 
might help.

* A number of files still have Unix line ends. It would probably 
be a good idea to make every file had DOS line ends. This is 
especially important for the examples, because we expect that 
people will look at them. It does appear that SciTE is 
unconcerned with the line endings (as should nearly all 
programs, even on Unix, IMHO) which helps mitigate that concern. 
Notepad isn't, however, and the result confuses Windows users.

* There are still a few files named README, LICENSE, and similar 
that lack file extensions. I know they are lifted intact from 
their respective library distributions in most cases, but they 
will still give a Windows user unfamiliar with Unix conventions 
fits. They should get DOS line ends and renamed to *.txt.

* Uninstall didn't remove \Program Files\Lua\5.1 and its 
children from PATH.

* Uninstall didn't remove .wlua from PATHEXT

* Uninstall didn't remove LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH

* I had to exercise brute force to remove \Program 
Files\Lua\5.1\pn\pnse.dll after doing the uninstall. Since it 
didn't reappear after I reinstalled the current release, that 
was actually a leftover from the previous alpha where 
Programmer's Notepad was included instead of SciTE, so the issue 
may be moot looking forwards. For reference, it needed treatment 
with regsvr32 /u to get the context menu to stop appearing in 
Explorer, and I had to logout to get Explorer to unload it from 
its process context before it could be deleted.

Its almost there!

Ross Berteig                               Ross@CheshireEng.com
Cheshire Engineering Corp.           http://www.CheshireEng.com/