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- Subject: Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting
- From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:19:05 +0400
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 21:10, Hisham <hisham.hm@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been following this thread with interest, and it seems some stuff
> from the luarocks.fs modules serve similar purposes to what has been
> discussed here. Perhaps it would be a good idea to join these efforts
> and produce a shell utilities module (the LuaRocks modules try to use
> stuff such as LuaFileSystem when available or command-line tools as a
> fallback).
I second that.
I'm willing to donate a bit of my time to this project — the results
could be useful.
Lets design the interface first.
I think that it should be not a single module, but a family of modules.
At least these three:
-- String: expansion, escaping
-- Path manipulation
-- Process execution, output redirection and piping.
Do you think that we need to support non-POSIX environments? (Since
you need this module for LuaRocks, I suppose that you do...)
Alexander.
P.S. Should we move from Lua list to somewhere? Anyone else willing to help? :-)