Re: Batteries

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Joshua Jensen once stated:
> Sean Conner wrote on 3/11/2018 6:54 PM:
> >It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> >>2018-03-11 18:23 GMT+02:00 Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>>Josh Jensen has already created a very complete "batteries included"
> >>>distribution called LuaPlus.
> >>Does it work for Lua 5.3 under Linux?
> >   This seems to be the repository: 
> >   https://github.com/jjensen/luaplus51-all
> >and I don't see mention of Lua 5.2 or higher.  Also, there isn't much
> >description about what LuaPlus actually offers.  The code seems to be 50% C
> >and 50% C++ with a seemingly scary amount of IDE specific files.
> Yes, LuaPlus has Lua 5.3 working under Linux. Or, at least, it is 
> working fine under Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.10, the last two versions 
> I tested against, Ubuntu 17.10 being just last night.
> 
> I do not know what you are referring to as a scary amount of IDE 
> specific files. Would you care to elaborate? 

  I checked the Github repository and saw this list of files at the top level:

	Docs/
	Samples/
	Src/
	Test/
	Tools/
	.gitignore
	.gitmodules
	AddAutoExp.bat
	AddAutoExp.lua
	AutoExpAdditions.txt
	BootstrapJamPlus-linux64
	BootstrapJamPlus-macosx64
	BootstrapJamPlus.bat
	CreateJamLinuxWorkspace.config
	CreateJamLinuxWorkspace.sh
	CreateJamWindowsWorkspace.config
	CreateJamXcodeWorkspace.config
	CreateJamXcodeWorkspace.sh
	CreateVS2010Workspace.bat
	CreateVS2013Workspace.bat
	CreateVS2015Workspace.bat
	CreateVS2017Workspace.bat
	Jamfile.jam
	LUAPLUS.jamrules
	License.txt
	README.md
	changelog.txt

  There are files there for VS2013, VS2017, XCode and JamLinuxWorkspace (?). 
As someone who doesn't use IDEs [1], this to me comes across as "IDE
heavy---non IDE users need not apply".  

> I also don't know what 50% C and 50% C++ has to do with anything.

  Observation as someone who doesn't care for C++ all that much.

  -spc

[1]	As someone who has yet to *find* an IDE that doesn't crash 10
	minutes into using it ...