On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:57:30PM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
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> Do you really think that a user would rather edit Lua when a new release
> comes down than the format I showed? I've worked with many users and
> editing code is very low on their TODO list.
I never said that at all actually. But that's ok. Also, the fact that the
bindings are in lua is unrelated to the difficulty in editing them for
normal people, lua is designed to be used for configuration services and
as such can be made to look rather config-file-like. The ion config system
doesn't do that much, but that's ok.
> The *basic* Ion operations haven't changed much since Ion3 was
> released. I've had to rewrite my Lua config several times, though,
> because of small changes to the objects.
Actually the basic operations have changed quite a bit since ion3 started,
in a couple places. And like I said you just move the failure point, and
like I also said a translation script is not at all hard to handle.
> Anyhow, it's a moot point if Tuomo disagrees, and he has in the past :)
Actually this doesn't need to touch Tuomo at all it can be entirely with a
runtime script which reads your simplified binding file and makes the
right lua calls.
> Ted
-Etan
