Re: [ANN] Lua Conference Bot 0.1

[David Given <dg@...>]

Etan Reisner wrote:
[...]
> I would be more than happy to help work on a lua wrapper for libpurple,
> however that is currently a far from trivial task. I had started work on a
> lua plugin loader for libpurple though a while back (before the libpurple
> name change) but ran out of spare time for it and it has since sat and
> bit-rot. At this point I don't like the idea I had for how to handle it
> anyway, so I would want to start again on a new one were I to have time to
> pick it up again.

Ditto; I have a Gaim plugin for the Citadel IM protocol written in Lua. 
Citadel's protocol is so stateful that it was actually *easier* to bind 
Lua to Gaim and write the protocol code in a Lua coroutine than it would 
have been to do with a traditional state machine! (I can package up the 
code if anyone's interested.)

[...]
> There is currently SoC and associated work under way to GObject-ify many
> of the core objects in libpurple, when this work finally lands in
> libpurple a lua binding will likely be much easier to accomplish (using
> the same set of tools used for the lgob bindings).

Sounds good; this should allow dynamic creation of bindings via GObject 
introspection, right?

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