On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:57:08 -0400 Etan Reisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ER> Also, the fact that the bindings are in lua is unrelated to the ER> difficulty in editing them for normal people, lua is designed to be ER> used for configuration services and as such can be made to look ER> rather config-file-like. IMO Lua is not a good configuration language no matter what. Neither are Perl, shell, etc. When the author punts the software configurations to code, either the users learn to code that language, or they walk away. If you have a better Lua syntax, that's great, but remember it has to be better than a regular configuration file too, because that's what end users expect. ER> Actually this doesn't need to touch Tuomo at all it can be entirely with a ER> runtime script which reads your simplified binding file and makes the ER> right lua calls. To be widely useful, this syntax should be part of the Ion3 release and supported. Unofficial is OK by me but end users will not find it by default, and they are the ones that need this functionality the most. So I'd rather write something Tuomo will include in Ion3. If you disagree, feel free to write and support the script, I am perfectly OK with that. Ted
