Re: [mildly OT] Some info about Python

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 22:14, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> >
> > It was thus said that the Great Andrew Starks once stated:
> > >
> > > The benefit of a standard library, independent/separated from Lua and it’s
> > > development, is clear to me. It’s an idea that has been had before, but
> > > why is it so hard to make it happen?
> >
> >   Someone has to do the work (I'm trying, and doing it publically on this
> > list, but I'm getting little feedback).  Then people have to use it, which
> > is probably harder than writing it in the first place.
> 
> Hi,
> I am sorry to say this but I think it is a futile exercise because the
> greatest challenge for you will be to convince others that your
> definition of a standard library is better than the libraries they
> already use. Added to this there are various risks:
> 
> a) How can folks be sure the library will be maintained and supported?

  How can folks be sure Lua will be maintained and supported?

> b) If Lua team decide to issue a competing incompatible library then
> it would negate all your efforts.

  If the Lua team haven't done so by now, I doubt they will any time soon.

> I would suggest instead to make your existing libraries work on
> Windows and Mac OSX; I would be very happy to include them in Suravi.

  The ones in pure Lua should just work (on Lua 5.1 and higher [1]).  The
modules in C already work on Mac OS-X (and again, on Lua 5.1 and higher).  I
don't have access to a Windows system and so far, have received NO feedback
about the lack of Windows support for my modules, so Windows support isn't
high on my list of things to do [2].

  -spc

[1]	I haven't done extensive testing against Lua 5.4 since it's not
	officially released yet, but the smoke tests I've done haven't shown
	there to be any issues.

[2]	I also effectively have zero Windows development experience.