Re: LfW project status, are maintainers on this list ?

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 7 October 2013 09:52, Ryan Pusztai <rpusztai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Peter Drahoš <drahosp@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 7 Oct, 2013, at 8:52 , Jayanth Acharya <jayachar88@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Argh... my bad. Looks like the "luars232" has been renamed to "librs232"
>> > and it does exist already. Also, I saw a closed issue about archiving last
>> > version of SciTE. I do not use the Windows-only libraries (i.e. the
>> > non-portable ones), so for me, LuaDist is pretty much a replacement for LfW
>> > !  Thanks again, @Paul and @Steve. Downloading it right now.
>>
>> Excellent,
>> for bugs, update requests and other issues with LuaDist please use the
>> Issue tracker [1]. I am working on a new Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2 binary release
>> at the moment so please submit any update requests as soon as possible.
>>
>> pd
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/LuaDist/Repository/issues
>
>
> I am still maintaining LfW. We just need to know when it is time to actually
> pull the trigger on replacing the old LfW with the new LuaDist backbone. It
> will take some time to update the install script and get the environment
> correct. Thoughts?

Seems like we're up for some good discussion of the Lua modules
ecosystem at the Lua Workshop in November, so we could take the
opportunity to synchronize goals and to-do lists there and get some
nice releases by the end of the year.

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/