Lua and TCL/TK

[Dirk Laurie]

1. Can stock Lua do most of what TCL/TK does? (answer: no)
2. Could one write a support package that will enable Lua to do most
of what TCL/TK does? (answer: yes)
3. Is there a rock for such a package? (answer: yes. it's called ltcltk)
4. Does that rock build effortlessly in the most commonly used current
systems? (answer: no)
5. Does it at least build effortlessly for Lua 5.3 in Debian/Ubuntu?
(answer: no)
6. Has anybody on the list got it working for Lua 5.x on whatever system?
7. Is it worth the effort to get it working or might I just as well
just have done the whole thing in TCL without dragging in Lua?

[Doug Currie]

6. Has anybody on the list got [ltcltk] working for Lua 5.x on whatever
system?

According to Gunnar's site: http://tset.de/ltcltk/index.html
it's not supported, which is a shame because I found it very useful.

It worked out of the box on Lua 5.2 I believe, based on notes in my copy,
where I have a few edits to make it work in 5.3.

See https://github.com/dcurrie/ltcltk
for my changes.

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[g***@tset.de]

Post by Doug Currie
According to Gunnar's site: http://tset.de/ltcltk/index.html
it's not supported, which is a shame because I found it very useful.

I stopped supporting it because I did not use it any more and because,
well, seemingly nobody else did. I thought about continuing support for
ltcl, without the tk part, because the latter is what creates the most
work. But then my attention drifted elsewhere and the rest is...
negligence ;)

Post by Doug Currie
It worked out of the box on Lua 5.2 I believe, based on notes in my
copy, where I have a few edits to make it work in 5.3.
See https://github.com/dcurrie/ltcltk
for my changes.

Nice :)

Gunnar

[Xavier Wang]

Post by Dirk Laurie
1. Can stock Lua do most of what TCL/TK does? (answer: no)
2. Could one write a support package that will enable Lua to do most
of what TCL/TK does? (answer: yes)
3. Is there a rock for such a package? (answer: yes. it's called ltcltk)
4. Does that rock build effortlessly in the most commonly used current
systems? (answer: no)
5. Does it at least build effortlessly for Lua 5.3 in Debian/Ubuntu?
(answer: no)
6. Has anybody on the list got it working for Lua 5.x on whatever system?
7. Is it worth the effort to get it working or might I just as well
just have done the whole thing in TCL without dragging in Lua?

I have been make a Lua/Tcl bidirection binding here[1].

But it lacks documents and test cases :-(

Just make it for fun

[1]: https://gist.github.com/starwing/3ea235fee1a4b03bef00