On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:08:54 +0000 (UTC) Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TV> My take on the use scripting languages for configuration may be read TV> in [1,2]. In summary: I'm not too happy about using scripting languages TV> for configuration, and would rather have separate somewhat _standard_ TV> config system for basic configuration (integrated with Vis [3], possibly TV> providing access through the FS, and maybe providing _rudimentary_ TV> command-level scripting as well) [1]. Support for real scripting should TV> be provided by a general exported API usable through any language being TV> able to access some ___simplistic___ common language runtime TV> infrastructure [2]. However, since decent versions of neither of these TV> systems exist, using an easily embeddable scripting language like Lua TV> is the path of least effort. And since Ion is "research code" (although TV> in Ion2 and especially Ion3 it has recently strayed too far into becoming TV> a proper software development project, which I don't like), I'm not going TV> to spend too much time polishing it to be a flashy luser-compatible TV> product. I rather concentrate on the ideas. In that case I think a luser -> lua -> Ion tool makes sense as a project outside Ion itself, which is what Ethan and I have discussed. Ted
