David Douthitt, 2001-07-19 16:02 -0400
>Mike Noyes wrote:
> > I can't begin to describe how much I like this. It'll save a ton of
> > work. Are you proposing we use this in addition to the shell script
> > below, or as a replacement for it?
>
>I see two projects being bandied about here. One is a
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> There are a number of reasons I was looking at Lua:
> 1. Reduce size of root.lrp
How?
> 2. Learn a new language :-)
I was looking for an excuse to learn it as well.
> Can't eradicate /bin/sh for several reasons:
> 1. It's everywhere
> 2. It's used f
> The other project is a sort of "what's this package about" detail which
> helps to describe the package itself. No reason both couldn't be
> included together.
I agree that both scripts should be run, one for people browsing the package
archives, and one for people searching through the new,
Mike Noyes wrote:
>
> David Douthitt, 2001-07-18 16:22 -0400
> >Here is the code:
> >http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/webdesc
> >
> >Here is the source *.desc file (for upx):
> >http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/upx.desc
> >
> >Here is the resulting page:
> >http://leaf.sourceforge.net
David Douthitt, 2001-07-18 16:22 -0400
>Here is the code:
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/webdesc
>
>Here is the source *.desc file (for upx):
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/upx.desc
>
>Here is the resulting page:
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/upx.html
>
>Also whipped up
Dale Long wrote:
> Will lua add to the size of Oxygen or will it justify itself nicely (and
> reduce size)? I think the latter.
ash is 100k, lua with POSIX AND sockets is 98k - a nice tradeoff. Lua
by itself (without extensions) is 72k. However, all of the startup
scripts are in /bin/sh, and t
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> Look at this. I tried to do this in /bin/sh, but fought with scoping
> rules too long - I thought everything was global! I was wrong... both
> /bin/sh and /bin/ksh did the same.
>
> So I switched to Lua 4.0.
Will lua add to the size of Oxygen or wi
Look at this. I tried to do this in /bin/sh, but fought with scoping
rules too long - I thought everything was global! I was wrong... both
/bin/sh and /bin/ksh did the same.
So I switched to Lua 4.0.
Here is the code:
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/oxygen/webdesc
Here is the source *.desc fi
