Re: Project lead nominations for standard libraries?

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Henning Diedrich <hd2010@eonblast.com> wrote:
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/
>
> Quoting from its TOC to get an idea. NOT to say this has to or should be
> part of a Lua std lib or even Lua core. (And some already is.)

Naturally I've looked at that TOC to get ideas, but many of those
topics are covered already by existing modules. I would agree with
Mark that the Python standard library is thus not useful for further
inspiration;  once you have the basic 'core' library, then the
everything else can be done by package management.  I know LuaRocks is
not as widely used as it could be [1] but it handles the dependency
and the delivery problems well.

Documentation generally remains a problem, but we're not alone with this one.

steve d.

[1] It would be interesting to look at the bad experiences people have
had with LuaRocks, or reasons for general resistance.