luigi scarso wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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) -)
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