On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:25:13PM +0100, LEGO wrote:
> > LEGO is currently implementing support for lua scripting (a "lightweight" scripting language), which might be what you are looking for.
>
> > The lua binding is "post 0.10.14" (developer version) and currently very experimental, so you have been warned ;-) ...
>
> I don't want to discourage anyone, testers are wellcome!
>
> The API might not the be definitive one, the documentation is at an
> embryonic stage (http://wiki.ethereal.com/Lua), We don't build it yet
> under windows. Negative testing has not yet being performed, so you
> caan expect a crash if things are not done in the ortodox way (whose
> doctrine hasn't even been written)
>
> Under UN*X if you have lua-5.0.2 installed you can ./configure
> --with-lua and buid it. It is a prototype but it could do the job.
>
> I'm available to help (and fix bugs).
This sounds great, I have taken a look at the Wiki and it will
indeed solve some of the challenges I run into :) I will try
it in the near future on my home FreeBSD box...
However, since I do most of my troubleshooting on my XP-laptop
with additional scripting under Cygwin, Lua is not yet an option
for me. Also, the possibilities with parsing in Perl are larger
IMHO. So I guess I'll be building a parser anyways ;)
Cheers, Sake
