Say, someone wants to parse an xml message. I don't know Im just cooking it up.
Im not for Lua really, just neutral. If we have someone that feels very strongly about it, they can probably come up with more compelling usecases. But I think your post makes it fairly clear why it should not be chosen as the main language. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > Use cases? > (Maintenance) effort required? > > Sent from phone, thus brief. > Am 22.05.2015 21:57 schrieb "singh.janmejay" <[email protected]>: > >> Another alternative is to make it possible to call-out to lua for >> esoteric things (it allows us to not support those things in >> rainerscript). >> >> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Marcus Rueckert <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 2015-05-22 21:52:56 +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >> I tried to stay away from making the config script language a full >> >> programming language. If we now think it needs to be, I won't object >> but >> >> we should be sure there is good reason to do so and not just feature >> creep. >> >> .. >> > >> > before you fully morph it into a full programming language may i mention >> > lua/luajit instead? small. really fast. probably all you need. >> > >> > darix >> > >> > -- >> > openSUSE - SUSE Linux is my linux >> > openSUSE is good for you >> > www.opensuse.org >> > _______________________________________________ >> > rsyslog mailing list >> > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Janmejay >> http://codehunk.wordpress.com >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. -- Regards, Janmejay http://codehunk.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
