Hi Lua Gurus,
we are planning to reimplement various scripts which are at the core of
TeX Live (and many other TeX distributions) in texlua. I guess all of
you know what we are talking about:
mktexlsr, updmap, fmtutil, mktexupd, mktexnam, ...
As a finger exercise in lua programming I started implementing mktexupd.
Ok, it is not perfect, but AFAIS it does the same as the shell scripts.
If one or more of you want to give a helping hand (much appreciated)
please take a look at the telxive-svn, trunk/Master/tlpkg/texlua:
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/texlua/
and send me scripts, or check them in yourself, or just go over the
scripts and fix bugs, etc etc. Any help is appreciated.
Not that I say we will get these scripts running by TL2008, but for
TL2009 it would be nice.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining
Norbert Preining
Hi Lua Gurus,
we are planning to reimplement various scripts which are at the core of TeX Live (and many other TeX distributions) in texlua. I guess all of you know what we are talking about: mktexlsr, updmap, fmtutil, mktexupd, mktexnam, ...
As a finger exercise in lua programming I started implementing mktexupd. Ok, it is not perfect, but AFAIS it does the same as the shell scripts.
For something going through a directory tree, the coroutine-based approach I contributed to URL:http://lua-users.org/wiki/DirTreeIterator might be worth looking at. It's quite to the point and shows the power of coroutines in Lua (basically somewhat related to programming with bidirectional pipes). -- David Kastrup
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