Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, Feel free to commit code any time you want, you have the commit
> rights (actually, push rights in Git).
> But, if it is comfortable to you, I'd prefer we do our development in
> GitHub forks, and merge branches to the central repo as they are
> ready, that is arguably cleaner. (Note that it does not prevent us
> from using each other fork commits). If it is too much bureaucracy for
> you, we may drop the rule.

I'm a total newbie wrt Git and Github so the simpler the better to me,
but I'm willing to learn. We could start simple to get things going
and then start using multiple repos when the code gets stable.

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 22:02, Hisham <hisham.hm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing I have in mind is to simplify the
>> use of optional module dependencies -- to either use them all (as is
>> the case in Lua for Windows) or to rely in os.execute for everything
>> (for the bootstrap stage when installing from scratch). That will make
>> testing it much simpler.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Do we need external dependencies at all at early stage?
>
> Looks like we do — since we're reusing existing code.

I plan to have them only in the optional Lua-module-based backend for sh.fs.

> P.S. Anyone who has GitHub account and are interested in this project
> — please do watch it:
>
> http://github.com/lua-shellscript/lua-shellscript/watchers
>
> Thus we would know we have your support. :-)

Done :)

-- Hisham