On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 04:34:44AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
Nice. What is prior art in this area? I know of https://github.com/lcurses/lcurses though I never used it myself and don't know its status. If it already has adoption in the lua community, it makes sense to use it and make sure it can be compiled against our curses. Though that may be less fun that writing your own from scratch :)
I didn't realize that prior art actually mattered... I say this because our SQLite bindings in src/lib/lua/sqlite were homegrown, despite the fact that official Lua-SQLite bindings have always existed upstream: http://lua.sqlite.org I.e. I'm not sure how to handle the suggestion to import an upstream library, when "the prior art" demonstrated in src/ with sqlite is to NOT use upstream libraries. Maybe the author of src/lib/lua/sqlite didn't realize that the offical bindings existed. But at the same time, maybe it's a sign of what NetBSD's stance *should* be regarding a situation like this. I don't know. At any rate, I'm not gonna let that unanswered question stop me from plopping in my own bindings in the near term. Charlotte
