Alternatives for tolua++?
Fellow games maintainers,
I'm sure that some of you have been dealing with issues relating to the
upstream abandonment of tolua++ (note the broken homepage link at [1]).
I'm also involved upstream with the WorldForge project [2] and this has
become a serious problem for them; a problem shared by a related
project, CEGUI [3]. Various discussions have brought up a number of
options [4][5][6][7] including switching to another system (such as
OOLua [8]) or collectively adopting tolua++ for future development.
Have any of you been dealing with this issue? If so, what solutions have
you come up with? Migrating a very large codebase to a new system is a
daunting task and unlikely to happen without a volunteer (there
currently isn't one). However, continuing to use a system that is not
being maintained, much less actively developed, isn't really a viable
long-term solution.
Since all of these packages are currently being maintained in Debian, it
would certainly behoove us to help these (and possibly other?) upstreams
figure out an effective and sustainable long-term solution.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions!
-Olek
[1] https://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tolua++.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Games/WorldForge
[3] https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cegui-mk2.html
[4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ember/+bug/1498142
[5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ember/+bug/1299959
[6] http://mail.worldforge.org/pipermail/general/2015-September/008523.html
[7] https://bitbucket.org/cegui/cegui/issues/1074/moving-from-tolua-bridge
[8] https://oolua.org/
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