Re: [Wxlua-users] Re: wxLua packaging

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 2/20/06, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> Francesco Montorsi ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >    as you can see, I start to think to the first release of wxLua ;)

Thanks!

> > So, let's discuss this issue.
> >
> > I'd make a total of 4 releases:
> >
> > 1) a win32 MSI install package. This can be generated using InnoSetup
> > and it should distribute all wxLua tree including EXE, doxygen generate=
d
> > docs and .lib files, all built in release mode, possibly against a
> > static build of wxWidgets.
> I have created this package and added it to CVS.
> I also uploaded an experimental setup installer for win32 at
>
>      http://wxlua.sourceforge.net/wxLua-2.6.2.1-setup.exe
>
> I've tried it out for a while and it works nice. If someone can test it
> and confirms it installs wxLua and that it works it would be good.
> However it needs:
>
> 1) to have all wxLua sample files to be renamed with .wxlua extension
> (.wx.lua extension is not good for windows when you need to associate a
> program to it - at least programmatically)

That will make syntax highlighting editors not be able to immediately
hilight it for lua. I'm not sure that's a good idea.

> 2) to have wxLuaEditor able to open .wxlua files which are passed to it
> as first parameter... John, can you do that ?

If you really think that that's a good idea, I don't think so.

> BTW I think that all wxLua samples should be reviewed as they look quite
> old and some doesn't work smoothly...

Heh, there are more samples from the original distribution, but I just
took the ones that work out of the box. But I do agree that they are
not very exciting.

> Is there any other problem which must be solved before the release ?
> Besides the website completion, obviously... (any help writing pages
> would be very appreciated ;))

I will try to put some text up there tomorrow.

-John Labenski