Re: Building Squish on Windows

[mchalkley@...]

I know this is off topic (but closely related to my original intent,
if not my specific quesstion), but my problem is that my real job is
management, and I only write code once in a while, but when I do, it's
generally something that I put together for a group of people to use,
and none of them have Lua installed.

My current little project is a log analyzer for profiling a system.
Longer term, we're going to implement something that's standard and
robust, but short term, it seemed like a really good idea to provide a
command line parser that would enable them to profile things using the
logs by inserting a few simple directives that my script could use to
build a report for developers and testers.

Anyway, all of a sudden, I realized that once again I'm in the
situation of needing to distribute it to 15 or 20 people, and really
don't want to have to have them manage half a dozen different files.
In the meantime, since the last time I did something like this, I've
gotten a new laptop, didn't have everything installed, and spent more
time trying to get a means of distributing it working (before I gave
up) than I did working on the project itself. Between projects, I just
forget all the steps, and there really doesn't seem to be anything
that "just works". I had LuaDist working once before, but couldn't get
that going in an hour or so of fiddling, so I ended up just sending
all the files to the first 4 people who'll be using it, and hopefully
I can get back to getting LuaDist going in a day or so, by the time
the "enhancement" suggestions come back from the beta testers.

Sorry for the long-winded version, but it's all just to say that it
wouldn't really be such a big problem if I worked on this stuff
regularly, but the gaps just make the hurdle something I have to cross
every once in a while, and what I've forgotten in the meantime makes
it all very hard to pull together when I need something quickly, so I
really wish it were easier to do...

On the flip side, of course, when I think how spectacular it is to
have all this stuff available for free, I feel pretty low for even
bringing it up, so I'll add that I hope it's taken in the spirt of
wishing to improve things, not complaining...

Mark

Monday, October 6, 2014, 8:50:28 AM, you wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
>> Sure, you can do this in 5.1, but in 5.2, it's crystal-clear what's going on. It also breaks the tiny little mind of lualint.

> And ditto for the tiny mind of lglob, or any static analysis tool.

> Personally this is less than crystal-clear to me, possibly because I
> too rely on static analysis ;) [1]

> Prefer the old table argument way to simulate named arguments.

> [1] and have less than rosy memories of the Pascal with-statement,
> especially when nested (and it will be nested ;))