Re: [ANN] https://github.com/PUC-Lua

[Hisham <h@...>]

Hi Russell,

This is an *awesome* initiative. I'm eager to help any way I can in
anything LuaRocks-related. (My helping abilities are limited by the
fact that I'm not a Windows user, though, but it would be great to see
a repo of binary rocks available.)

Side note: the Pope might have issues with the project name (PUC being
the Pontifical Catholic University, you know — several universities in
Brazil and other countries carry that name).

-- HIsham

On 18 January 2018 at 18:10, Russell Haley <russ.haley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Description: PUC-Lua aims to provide standard Lua in binary form to
> Windows users for whome the phrase "What's a compiler?" is not a joke.
>
> What has been done:
> - I have transferred 2 Visual Studio projects I have over to the
> PUC-Lua organization: The Visual Studio solutions for Lua and a
> LuaDotNet project containing the Tuxen scripting engine.
> - I have added a bin directory that contains binaries and installers for users
> - Tuxen SE requires Lua 5.1 for which an installer is available.
> However, there is a full copy of the Lua VS solution embedded (to be
> removed).
>
>
> What's not done:
> - The Tuxen scripting engine doesn't work yet.
> - At some point I'll fill out a wiki entry of the various Windows
> projects that I've encountered.
> - Figure out more about LuaRocks binary support, LuaDist. Further
> investigation of nuget and chocaltey binary package managers
> - Finding where to dovetail with LuaUsers wiki, and other Windows resources
> - Add support for old school 2.4 LuaInterface
> - Convert Tuxen and LuaInterface to 5.x
>
> If you'd like to support the effort, please download the installer and
> test it and report all issues on Github. I shall be pining for more
> help with the Tuxen scripting engine soon.
>
> *Fyi my Visual Studio Professional trial license is running out
> tomorrow, I will not be able to respond to issues for a few weeks
> until I get that sorted. (Welcome to Windows!)
>
> Russ
>