Re: A Batteries API specification (was Re: LuaDEAL - Lua DEad Alive Libraries)

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Frank Kastenholz once stated:
> 
> With regard to file system finagling, path name munging, and directory
> foozling, I’ve found that penlight has a bunch of the functions people
> have been asking about and seems to be a good complement to LFS.  Off the
> top of my head I can’t recall ever saying “I wish they had X”

  I'm looking at PenLight right now, and it uses LFS internally, plus other
functions (some of which shell out to OS commands).  The goal I'm going for
is a minimal set of useful functions that are common across as many
operating systems as possible [1].

  -spc

[1]	Okay, POSIX and Windows in reality.