[Users] FYI: Lua plugin status [was Re: Adding a header to incoming/outgoing mail]

[Ricardo Mones]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:03:38AM +0100, Milan Obuch wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 09:43:08 +0100 I wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 17:52:42 +0100, Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org>
> > wrote:
> 
> [ snip ]
> 
> > > So, perhaps I overlooked the URL, but, is it published somewhere?
> > > 
> > 
> > Not yet, sorry. I am a FreeBSD user, and it was developed as FreeBSD
> > port. It is not yet generic enough for various systems with different
> > system directories layout. I am currently verifying it still builds
> > (there are some unrelated issues when building in clean environment
> > due some dependency) and works (when rebuilt just plugin on my work
> > station).
> > 
> > What needs some work is mainly patch to configure.ac in order to
> > enable Lua plugin build to find necessary bits for Lua build and
> > Makefile.am in src/plugins/lua directory, where I have some paths
> > hardwired for a moment. Using tons of debug printf's which needs
> > cleanup is only minor issue.
> 
> [ snip ]
> [ Follow-up to my mail ]
> 
> I thought I could offer something a bit sooner, but currently I've got
> some inspiration from googling and hint from Lua mailing list.
> 
> At a moment I am rewriting large portions of Lua interface to make it
> much easier to handle. This will take couple of days, as it needs to be
> verified and tested, even though result should be basically unchanged.
> 
> Also, I have already working configure.ac patch which could be used
> basically on any platform, I hope, albeit some hand holding with
> arguments to configure is necessary. I did not yet study m4 script
> suggested which should make the process more automated.
> 
> Resume: expect status message after I am finished on developers mailing
> list, but if someone would like to help with testing at a moment, would
> like to check how it works and could tolerate somehow not yet mature
> state of affairs, I can send sources privately (~ 80 kB unpacked).

Allright, no hurry, sounds like you're almost there. But my curiosity
can wait :) and I'll be happy to test it when you feel confident enough
to publish it.

best regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot 
  today.                                           /usr/games/fortune

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