Re: Selenophobia

[Paul K <paul@...>]

Hi Andrew,

> My current favorite solution is ZeroBraneStudio, which "just works" on the three major platforms, if you're just trying to make things run. It does not provide a luarocks install and it doesn't provide the ability to export a sandbox, but it does give you a functioning debugger and many of the other niceties of a real environment.

FWIW, the last version also bundles luasocket, luasec, luafilesystem,
and lpeg binaries for Lua 5.1-5.3 on all supported platforms
(Windows/Linux/MacOS). For those users who need more, there is
integration with LuaDist that will get binaries (or compile from
sources if needed) [1]; there is no direct integration with luarocks,
but any usual path mechanisms that Lua uses (whether with
package.c/path or LUA_C/PATH) should work.

> it doesn't provide the ability to export a sandbox

What do you mean by this?

Paul.

[1] http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane/lua-package-managers-luadist-luarocks-and-integration-with-zerobrane-studio

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Starks <andrew@starksfam.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 05:12 Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
>>
>> March 24, 2017 10:10 PM, "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>>
>> > The consensus there seems to be: it's missing batteries and I can't get
>> > started with it in less than 5 seconds on Windows.
>>
>> I answered on Reddit, but I will say it again here: the only way
>> I found to have a decent experience using Lua on Windows is through
>> https://github.com/Tieske/luawinmulti. It only depends on a C
>> compiler (MinGW or MSVC) and gives you a working, self-contained
>> Lua with a working LuaRocks. This should be what we point Windows
>> users to.
>>
>> --
>> Pierre Chapuis
>
>
> My current favorite solution is ZeroBraneStudio, which "just works" on the
> three major platforms, if you're just trying to make things run. It does not
> provide a luarocks install and it doesn't provide the ability to export a
> sandbox, but it does give you a functioning debugger and many of the other
> niceties of a real environment.
>
> It would be wonderful to see Lua as a first class citizen in VS.
>>
>>
>