From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22610 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ruby, Lua, Megapost, tcl, ... Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:38 +0200 Message-ID: <432E6E82.1040107@wxs.nl> References: <42824AFB.5080104@wxs.nl> <4282F191.4010707@logosrl.it> <4282FF48.2060302@wxs.nl> <76C1E896-CA94-4908-85D4-ACAF693F941D@ensta.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127116515 26232 80.91.229.2 (19 Sep 2005 07:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Maurice Diamantini Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 19 09:55:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EHGTM-0005jd-Q7 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADAC127D2; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07340-02; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD91127C5; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06A1127C5 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07209-09 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045F7127A8 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8J7rPmA026107; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:53:25 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id BD7063497F; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:59:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F4E1B33D; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 06:59:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <76C1E896-CA94-4908-85D4-ACAF693F941D@ensta.fr> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22610 Archived-At: Maurice Diamantini wrote: > What about Lua, Adding one more dependency to ConTeXt make it > more difficult to install and maintain. > So what is the advantage of luo in conTeXt instead of ruby? perl, python, ruby are 'huge', and distributing them with tex is a problem; lua is 'made for embedding' and adds less that 100k to the binary: lean and mean; i love ruby, but it's a big machinery. Anyway, once we have lua in place, there will also be an api to tex's internals; when that is done, interfacing to ruby should be no problem. Maybe our next project will then be a .tex (dot tex) framework -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------