Am 17.11.13 13:05, schrieb Marc Balmer: > I came accross a small library for converting data to an from C structs > for Lua, written by Roberto Ierusalimschy: > > http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/struct/ > > I plan to import it and to make it available to both lua(1) and lua(4) > as follows: > > The source code will be imported into > ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sys/external/mit/struct unaltered and then be modified > to compile on NetBSD. > > Then ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sys/module/luastruct/ and > ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/lib/lua/struct/ directories will be added with the > respective Makefiles etc.
After discussion we lneto@ and others we realised that there are several such libraries around, and that I as well as lneto@ wrote one. SO we decided to merge our works and have a library that allows to encode/decode structured binary data in one call (my work) and that allows to access individual fields as well (lneto@'s work). Now we need a name that covers both uses cases. It could be "memory" because it deals with memory, or just "data", which I favour. Opinions on the name?
