Re: module & 5.2

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

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
> http://place.org/~nop/soar-0.0.tar.gz

Exactly what I was going to say, we have tools to make correct
amalgamations of multi-file projects that aren't sensitive to Lua
version differences.

Combine that with lhf's srlua, and you get self-contained Lua
executables.  That's always been a bit of a bitch with dynamic
languages; to extend the idea further, it would be cool if such a tool
could package the common C extensions as well.  It would be smart
'static linking', so that if a person only used the TCP/IP core of
LuaSocket, they would not get the MIME core or the HTTP modules, etc.

A nice project for the proverbial rainy day...

As for moving beyond module(), I can totally recommend Egil's global.lua tool:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-03/msg00890.html

An earlier version cleared up the accidental globals which happened
when I  moved Penlight away from using

steve d.

PS (As for Microlight, only ml.lua is official Jay/Steve/Dirk
'executable proposal', and 'mlx.lua' contains evil/experimental Steve
extensions.)