Hi all, The name of the project is no accident; it is very much a mini-Orbit in design and intention, except that it comes with its own mini web-server, and it is intended to operate inside the safe playground of the desktop; it comes from our experiments with a web front-end for browsing LuaRocks repositories (Webrocks).
Getting a cross-platform GUI up for a small script can be a mission, and installing the full Kepler stack for a small script feels like overkill; hence Orbiter. I'm not fixed on the name; Orbital would feel better, but there are some namespace collisions. And yes, I do know it's the name of Fabio's blog ;) In fact, this is a fairly early release because I wanted to know what people felt about the general idea, what extra features are essential, useless reduplication, etc. No attempt to do things like ORM, Orbit pages or caching. All that is really needed is 450 lines of code, but there is also a HTMLplug-in model which generates LOM HTML trees and then pretty-prints them into text (this is properly the role of luaexpat-utils, but I'm borrowing code from that project to make Orbiter self-contained.) http://github.com/stevedonovan/Orbiter Just copy the orbiter subdirectory onto your Lua module path. Orbiter scripts run directly, so e.g. lua hello.lua in the examples dir will start the magic. --help is understood. steve d. _______________________________________________ Kepler-Project mailing list Kepler-Project@lists.luaforge.net http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kepler-project http://www.keplerproject.org/
