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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