Am 17.11.13 14:43, schrieb Lourival Vieira Neto: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> 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.
