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Hello,
thank you for asking.
I felt lack of Enterprise-ready Lua distribution is limiting lua from wider acceptance.
Great that you are coming up with the model.

I can suggest to organize the packaging by industrydomain + Lua containment type

Containment type is:  Software Embedded , Hardware/firmware Embedded, Stand alone
Industry domain (example):  consumer devices, transportation, financial services,  etc. where industry domain guides the packaging, testing and support of industry relevant modules (and may be allows for more industry centric ecosystem for contribution/sharing/dependency management)


In the Software Embedded containment type, the distribution to concentrate on making lua and related modules accessible from variey of technical stacks
(eg .NET, native, .JVM), being able to work with data management platforms where Lua scripts are first-class citizens (eg Redis, Postgres, a couple others)

In the hardware/firmware embedded, it is about minimizing dependencies, insuring tight control/versioning, remote debugging

In the Stand alone, the emphasis should be on supporting UIs, installation simplicity, etc


VSP

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016, at 03:07 PM, Jeff Rouse wrote:

Hi all,


At ActiveState we feel Lua has a bright future in a variety of application areas (IoT, embedded scripting, and many others), and we are looking for ideas on how to support the community, increase adoption and help enterprises utilize the language more effectively. I’m proud to say that in 2017, we will be providing a community- and enterprise-ready Lua distribution on a variety of platforms, shaped in part by the feedback we receive from the community.


At ActiveState we have been in the open source tools and languages business (Python, Perl, Tcl) for almost 20 years. We also build developer tools, which are our Komodo Edit (open source) and IDE, which has basic Lua support, and we are actively making further Lua development improvements in those products.


If you would like to ask any questions or provide thoughts on where we can best help the Lua community, feel free to respond to this thread, email me, or sign up to our mail list (http://www.activestate.com/lua) for advanced notice of when our distribution is available. We look forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,
-JR

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