Re: [LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed

["luigi scarso" <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> 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,"

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