Re: Megapatches (Was: Lua Foundation?)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:
> steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Modlua"[1], sort of a play on the language "Modula". I was also thinking
> that perhaps a version of Lua could be built with a modular plugin design,
> so extensions could be created via a plugin architecture... but that is
> something I am still working out the details of in my mind.

A cool ambition, sir! I like the name....

There really are some cool patches out there, but applying them is a
little fiddly.

Extending tight, focused C in a modular way is definitely a
non-trivial problem!  The obvious bastards would be patches that touch
multiple subsystems.