Re: A Library for Converting Data to and from C Structs for Lua

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 17.11.13 14:43, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:
>> Am 17.11.13 13:32, schrieb Hubert Feyrer:
>>> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>>> I plan to import it and to make it available to both lua(1) and lua(4)
>>>
>>> I wonder if we really need to get all this into NetBSD,
>>> instead of moving it to pkgsrc somehow.
>>
>> Yes, we need it to handle structured binary data.
> 
> BTW, I'm developing bitwiser library with a similar purpose.It is not
> ready already, but it could be helpful to handle binary data without
> copying it from/to Lua string in the future.
> 
> LHF has lpack library [1], it could be an alternative to Roberto's struct.
> 
> [1] http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lpack

So before I commit anything (if at all), we will coordinate this effort
and maybe take the best of all libraries.  So that we have only one
module dealing with data.