Re: [ANN] Lunary

[可可熊 <cocobear.cn@...>]

2009/5/27 Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@gmail.com>:
> I'm proud to announce the public release of Lunary, a deserialization
> library. It is available on its website:
>
>    http://lunary.luaforge.net/
>    http://piratery.net/lunary/ (mirror)
>
> Here is a little introduction:
>
>  Lunary is a framework to read and write structured binary data from
>  and to files or network connections. The aim is to provide an easy to
>  use interface to describe any complex binary format, and allow
>  translation to Lua data structures. The focus is placed upon the
>  binary side of the transformation, and further processing may be
>  necessary to obtain the desired Lua structures. On the other hand
>  Lunary should allow reading and writing of any binary format, and
>  bring all the information available to the Lua side.
>
> Everything else, including download links, is explained on the website.
> To compare it to existing struct libraries, that one is intended to be
> higher level (actually I use an existing struct library for some low
> level serialization). It can be used to load complex binary files
> several tens or hundreds of megabytes long in a single operation without
> problem.
>

Like struct pack in Python?


> There is no versionning for the moment beyond Mercurial changeset ids
> because I don't feel a need for it as a developper. Tell me if you'd
> like formal versions.
>
> Any feedback is welcome :-)
>