Re: Lua library bank?

[Michal Kottman <michal.kottman@...>]

On 11 March 2013 22:52, David Heiko Kolf <kolf@gmx.de> wrote:
> A clear scope of the project would need to be defined in order to avoid
> "repackaging any old junk".  What should the standard library be capable
> of?  For example, I currently see the following tasks for a standard
> library:
>
> - File system functions
> - Network functions (TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6)
> - CGI scripting
> - Database access (with an included version of SQLite)
> - parsing and encoding XML/JSON/Lua table declarations
> - Hash functions (SHA1, ...)
> - LPEG
> - zlib compression
> - GUI functions (this could be a bit hard to do portable and small)

Funny but most of these function are implemented by the Qt framework
and available through lqt. At least regarding filesystem, network,
database, XML and GUI functionality.