Re: Spawner-ex license (Was Re: [ANN] el - an interactive shell-friendly form of Lua)

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

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 9:28 PM Sam Trenholme <lua@samiam.org> wrote:
> The package is really great for having a Lua script interact with a
> Chess engine.  I used it to automate playing dozens of Chess Variants to
> see which variant was the most balanced at grandmaster level play.

That is cool - it seemed a pity that everyone relied on expect/tcl and
there are _so many_ interactive programs we can harness!

> I know there was, when the package was released, complaints it may lock
> up in certain corner cases, but for mainstream usage with a child
> process which cooperates, it works beautifully and flawlessly.

The corner cases are most of the work.... but it's good when you have
tame children :)