Re: Lua binding compare-and-contrast

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

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On 12/16/2010 2:59 PM, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
> And when I use "Dub" to create Python bindings, I write it in Python ? ;-)

Nah, Lua's good for that too. ;)

Seriously, Lua is a much lighter dependency than Ruby or Python, though
there is the downside of needing to get any necessary add-ons bound to a
Lua executable, so it may just be a toss-up.

LuaForWindows is a good batteries-included distribution on Windows, but
I used that recently on a project and my client had trouble because they
were running on Mac. That's what I get for contracting with an iPhone
shop. :)

I'm sticking with tolua++ for now, simply because I've already burned
too much time on this investigation. I'll take a look at Dub at the
point that I'm ready to generate my own bindings, because I think that's
inevitable at this point -- tolua++ will hold me for now, but eventually
I'll want custom bindings. And I do like your approach.

But I may end up porting it to Lua to banish the additional dependency.
I do like Ruby, and I totally understand why you wrote your tool in
Ruby, but I hope to be distributing my library at some point, and I
don't want to either distribute Ruby with it (adding ~10Mb to the
library download?) or require that people install yet-another-tool.

Not even thinking of the various Ruby versions that they may already
have installed, and path issues, and ... well, yeah, it makes things
more complicated to bring in an entirely different language.

Tim
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