Re: Pattern matching proposal: %B to match balanced string with specified escape

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:45 AM, Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For a fork, you'll have to copy the entire Lua :)
>
> Actually, that would be easier, because I'm familiar with Git. There
> is a repository on GitHub that maintains an unofficial history of Lua
> releases going back to 5.0. I could just fork that, make my changes,
> and merge new releases from upstream as they occur. :) (In fact, the
> commit I linked in the OP demonstrating the code for this feature is
> in a repo forked from that unofficial Lua repo.)
>
>> In case of a rock, you can maintain a patch and a script. A script
>> extracts pattern-matching code from Lua and applies a patch.
>
> Creating and applying patches is something I have no clue how to do on
> Windows. I do have an Ubuntu machine on which I could figure it out,
> but it mostly just acts as a server for bot scripts to run on. My
> Windows 10 computer with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition is what
> I do my code development on.
>
> How would I go about creating and applying patches in Windows? If I
> can figure that out, then I'll work on the rock later this week. The
> script to extract the code is something I can figure out on my own.
>

LuaRocks can apply patches for you:

https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/wiki/Rockspec-format
Search "build.patches".


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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev