and now for something completely similar...

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

2008/3/27 Jordi Polo <mumismo at gmail.com>:

>
>
> 2008/3/28 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>:
>
> > 2008/3/27 Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org>:
> >
> > > On Thursday 27 March 2008 15:28:13 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > > > ...i'd really want to see themes being able to ship config files
> > > written in
> > > > lua.
> > > > e.g. I want to turn on std background for the clock I'm designig
> > > (the use
> > > > of svgpanel is the main reason) but there's no way I'm able to do
> > > that.
> > > >
> > > > that's the first usecase that came to me, aaron!
> > > >
> > > > now I'm really going to take that nap...
> > >
> > > What does that have to do with lua?
> > >
> >
> > Lua gives you better, saner, greater and more gloriosus possibility of
> > configurations.
> > And yes, I must say that I hate the booleans in the svg, but... yeah.
> > ;-)
>
>
> And so it does any other programming language. I don't see why Lua should
> be prevalent here.
>
>
For a couple of reasons:
- Lua is designed for configuration files
- Lua is very easy to integrate and we have Qt bindings¹.

If you want to propose something else, I'm widely open to any kind of
suggestions though. =)

Bye,
-Riccardo
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[¹] Links:
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-09/msg00095.html
http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/lua_qt/
FYI, I chatted with the guy of the first link a couple of times on IRC, so
we might get some
support from him.
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