From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41164 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:02 +0200 Message-ID: <48357EF6.5030102@wxs.nl> References: <48341162.2000008@elvenkind.com> <20080521134357.GI21340@phare.normalesup.org> <68c491a60805211322o39cebbfar8e3dad0fe283413b@mail.gmail.com> <20080521220015.GR21340@phare.normalesup.org> <68bfdc900805220326i6e888522ucbd37ad134091f37@mail.gmail.com> <48355726.7090301@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211465673 21690 80.91.229.12 (22 May 2008 14:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:14:33 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 22 16:15:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzBZ6-0002s9-F2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:14:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5A01FC0B; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:53 +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 06811-03-5; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE0D1FB33; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFDD1FB29 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:12:58 +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 05204-02-20 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E091FBEB for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 7782-1840426 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:07 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41164 Archived-At: luigi scarso wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yue Wang wrote: >>> I think it is better to only return a table while calling the Lua >>> function. The table contains key=value pairs for >>> {sysname=,nodename=,release=, version=,machine=}. For Windows, you >>> just fill these names by hand instead(easy, isn't it?). >> Easy to say, sure. You are not on windows either, I assume? >> >> Anyway, 0.30.0 will have both the old and the new ( os.uname() >> function), and the old variables will not go away until 0.40.0. >> >>> LuaTeX is going public in >>> months, so before that every major API change is OK to the developers. >>> After public, changing APIs will make other developers unhappy. >> I do not know what you are referring to. Nothing in the API is >> fixed until 1.0.0, and that is still a few years off ! > hmm, we must what david says about that, see > http://granthinam.blogspot.com/search/label/Conference report > "Kastrup, one of the developers of LuaTeX," funny, the luatex team is 3*h (hoekwater, henkel & hagen) ... small is beautiful (efficient and effective) -) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________